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"I did not falsify one single membership. Why would I cheat?" // 5

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"I heard about their sandwich shop.

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Ramming into the new year A few briefs in the world of queer news Kung Hei Fat Choi, everyone! Although only a week old, the Year of the Goat (or sheep, or ram, depending on who you ask) is already off to a big start. In fact, there's so much going on in the queer world that I couldn't narrow it down to just one topic, so I decided to tackle it all.

His contention is that both are sins against "God the Creator." We should be really mad about this, but I say we take Francis at his word: if God created us in his own image but trans* people are (re)creating themselves in their own image, then there's only one logical answer: trans* people are gods and should be worshipped accordingly. Can I buy offerings on Amazon?

the McKernan Community League hall (11341 - 78 Ave). Doors open at 2:30 pm, admission is by donation and it's an all-ages show.

Check our Vue's cover story on page 18 for more information about Not Enough Fest.

Lesbians break Texas Autostraddle is reporting on a Pope says trans* people are like strange situation in Texas: a pair of nuclear weapons, also God lesbians may or may not currently For a while there, Pope Francis was be married. looking mighty Here's the back(relatively) proIf God created us in his own image but trans* story: the state gressive: his takes still bans sameon poverty, peace, people are (re)creating themselves in their sex marriage, the environment own image, then there's only one logical andespite the fact and women's a state judge roles within the swer: trans* people are gods. has ruled that Catholic Church parts of the law are a far cry ahead of the last Pope. And while he's firm- Not Enough Fest is making space are unconstitutional. However, that ruling does not include an order to ly against same-sex marriage and while making noise thinks the practice of homosexual- Forget the snow: one of the most issue marriage licences to queers, so ity is immoral (I don't know about exciting festivals to hit Edmonton the law's in a bit of a grey area. Enyou, but I always turn to avowed this winter is Not Enough Fest, a ter Sarah Goodfriend and Suzanne celibates for policy on sex), he music festival "designed to encour- Bryant who petitioned for an emerdoes think that homosexual people age the participation of woman- gency licence, explaining that their should be treated with love and re- identified, queer, trans and non-bi- inability to get married was causnary people in music." Over the past ing them irreparable harm due to spect. I suppose that's not nothing.

So it might not come as a surprise few months, organizers have been Goodfriend's recent treatment for that the Pope is not a fan of people hosting jam sessions, skill-sharing ovarian cancer. Their request was who transition. Pope Francis re- workshops and gear-fundraising granted on February 18, a judge orcently published a book titled Pope events to encourage people who dered a licence to be issued and the Francis: This Economy Kills. Amidst are typically marginalized in the lo- two were married the next day. That his criticism of the global financial cal music scene to get out and make afternoon, the Attorney General apsystem, Francis took the time to some music. This hard work will pay pealed the decision and received a compare trans* people with nuclear off on Saturday, February 28 for an stay; now there is some argument weapons, noting that both do not all-day music fest that will feature as to whether the marriage is valid. "recognize the order of creation." 17 bands. The fun is happening at V

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Fast Forward's goodbye Last week's announcement of the impending closure of Calgary's alternative news and entertainment paper Fast Forward Weekly was disappointing to say the least. As we strive to do here at Vue each week, FFWD engaged its readers by covering local arts and entertainment events and by delving deeper into news items than the daily newspapers or broadcast news are able or willing to do.

As outlined in our mission statement, we cover topics, artists and events that are often ignored, marginalized or misrepresented by mainstream media outlets. As writers, we're given wide berth to examine topics affecting the most vulnerable and marginalized among

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us. This has meant publications like ours and FFWD have been years ahead of the pack when it comes to advocating for the rights of the LGBTQ community, for calling attention to issues around gender and racial inequality and for shining light on difficult issues such as suicide or sexual violence.

Media outlets like ours do so much more than simply making readers aware of the activities happening around them. We also act as a mirror, reflecting the incredibly diverse communities in which we live and offer a platform for voices that might otherwise be drowned out or ignored.

People outside of Alberta often view us as an extremely conserva-

tive province inhabited by people driving large pickup trucks with truck nuts dangling from the back bumper. And when you look at the face of the province—elected representatives like Stephen Harper and Jim Prentice—one can hardly blame them for coming to this conclusion. But those of us who live here know that is far from the truth.

This province is full of people committed to principles of equality and social justice, people who don't believe that only the voices of the wealthy and well-connected deserve to be heard. The demise of FFWD puts that goal a little further out of reach. And we are all the poorer for it. V

It's unclear why Hungarians continue to vote for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán When I first interviewed Viktor Orbán 25 years ago, he was an anti-Communist student firebrand whose whole purpose in life was to free Hungary from Soviet rule. But you can travel a long way in 25 years.

In 1991 Orbán celebrated the collapse of the Soviet Union, but now he says: "We Europeans need Russia. We need sooner or later—rather sooner than later—a strategic alliance with Russia."

Prime Minister Orbán has become the odd man out in the European Union, putting a close relationship with Russia well ahead of any concerns about what is happening to Ukraine.

When Russia's President Vladimir Putin came to Budapest last week to sign a new contract for supplying gas to Hungary, Orbán said: "We are convinced that locking Russia out of Europe is not rational. Whoever thinks that Europe can be competitive ... without economic cooperation with Russia ... is chasing ghosts."

And Putin, standing next to Orbán, said that the war in Ukraine was all the Ukrainian government's fault.

But it's not just a pragmatic decision

by Orbán to keep the country's main energy supplier sweet. (Hungary has also ordered new nuclear reactors from Russia.) Other members of the European Union and NATO that also depend heavily on Russian gas have nevertheless condemned Putin's actions in Ukraine. Orbán has been on a philosophical journey, and it has delivered him to a strange place.

In a speech last July, he declared the western democratic model dead and argued that authoritarian regimes like those in Russia, China and Turkey pointed the way to the future.

"We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society," he said. "The new state we are building is an illiberal state, a nonliberal state, because liberal values (in the West) today incorporate corruption, sex and violence."

Orbán is not just talking. Since the 2010 election he has had a two-thirds "super-majority" in Parliament that lets him amend the constitution as he likes. (Theoretically the Supreme Court might overrule him, but he has also chosen 11 of the 15 Supreme Court judges.) New media laws have turned public television into a government mouthpiece, and he has ruthlessly gerrymandered electoral boundaries to guarantee victory for his Fidesz Party.

Other familiar elements of authoritarian nationalist regimes have also begun to appear in Hungary. Nongovernmental organizations are under attack as foreign agents, and foreign-owned banks are to be partly nationalized. Land leased by foreigners any time in the past 20 years must be returned to its Hungarian owners. Every one of these arbitrary changes creates opportunities for corruption that rarely go unexploited by those close to the regime.

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The problem has grown so severe that last year the US government, in an initiative unprecedented against an EU member country, blacklisted 10 Hungarian officials, banning them from entering the United States on the grounds of corruption. And President Barack Obama, discussing corrupt, authoritarian governments, bracketed Hungary with Azerbaijan, Russia and Venezuela.

Victoria Nuland, the US assistant secretary of state for European affairs, went further, asking Orbán "How can you sleep under your NATO blanket at night while pushing 'illiberal democracy' by day, whipping up nationalism, restricting free press, or demonizing civil society?" But she asked him from a safe distance (Washington: about 7000 km away) and he didn't bother to reply. And the Hungarians went on voting for him.

Yet in last April's parliamentary election, Orbán's "big tent" Fidesz Party won two-thirds of the seats in Parliament again (though only by one seat this time). In the European elections in June they won 12 of Hungary's 21 seats. And in local elections in October, they won 19 of Hungary's 21 larger towns and cities, including the capital, Budapest. Why do a majority of Hungary's 10 million people go on voting for him?

Well, actually, they don't. In the April parliamentary elections, 2.8 million people voted for other parties, and only 2.3 million for Fidesz. But the opposition parties are weak and divided (except for the neo-fascist Jobbik movement, which has 14 percent popular support). Fidesz wins partly by gerrymandering, and partly by default— but that's good enough for Orbán, who enjoys his position as an illiberal yet democratically elected strongman.

Orbán is a skilled demagogue, and Hungarians are as susceptible to nationalist rabble-rousing as any other people. But he cannot be completely secure so long as the democratic electoral system survives: a big enough swing of public opinion against him would win even despite the gerrymandering.

He has no immediate worries: the next parliamentary election is not due until 2018. But last Sunday Fidesz lost a single by-election, and suddenly its "super-majority" in Parliament vanished. Viktor Orbán said it didn't matter, since he had already pushed through all the constitutional changes he wanted, and for the moment that's probably true.

However, if dissatisfaction with his rule continues to grow (he's now being called the "Viktator"), he may one day wish he had it back. Just in case he needs to change the constitution again. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

NEWS // LIBERALS

Fair and open Liberals

Alberta Liberal candidate pushed aside despite bringing in new members

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t has almost gotten to the point that one would be hard-pressed to find anyone willing to talk about federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau's commitment to fair and open nominations without using air quotes. One spurned local candidate is considering whether or not to sue the party for defamation over the unceremonious manner in which they set him aside.

Although Justice Rod Jerke's decision to dismiss Varinder Bhullar's request for a temporary injunction to stop the federal Liberals nomination meeting from going ahead in Edmonton-Mill Woods earlier this month dashed his hope that his name would be on the ballot for the upcoming federal election, Bhullar says the party intentionally harmed his reputation in the process and he's considering legal action.

A member and volunteer with the party for 20 years, Bhullar had been given the go-ahead by the Liberals' green-light committee to seek the nomination last March. Despite selling more than 1200 memberships in the months that followed, he says the party asked him to step aside in favour of city councillor Amarjeet Sohi. He says he was offered another riding in which to run and, when he refused that, offers of support to win the byelection to fill the council seat that Sohi would be forced to vacate if elected. Bhullar, who thought the matter had been put to rest last summer when Sohi indicated he wouldn't run in a contested nomination, says he was blindsided in November when the party accused him of giving away memberships, forbidden under the constitution.

Bhullar points out that with Sohi having earlier said he would not run, he was running for the nomination unopposed.

"I did not falsify one single membership. Why would I cheat?" he asks. "And if I did, why did the party try to get me to run in a different riding?"

As it turns out, Sohi became the nominated candidate without selling one single membership.

Bhullar's is just the latest in a string of accusations that Trudeau and his team have manipulated nomination battles. In December, a group of Sikhs in BC raised similar concerns after the nomination of retired Canadian Forces officer Harjit Singh Sajjan as the Liberals' candidate in Vancouver South. After prominent businessman Barj Dhahan withdrew from the contest, despite having signed up more than 4000 members to support him compared to the 1000 memberships Sajjan's team had sold, members of the community accused the party of forcing Dhahan out to make room for the party's "preferred candidate." Without going into details, Dhahan told The Province that he "withdrew reluctantly."

That situation prompted Mark Elyas, past president of the Vancouver East riding association, and about 50 other members of the party, to send an email

to Trudeau alleging "there have been zero truly fair, open and unhindered nominations in Greater Vancouver."

Bhullar argued the same thing in court but the judge found there was little recourse; party leaders have the right to withhold signing off on nominees at their discretion even though Kevin Feehan, the Alberta representative on the party's Election Readiness Committee, promised Bhullar at a meeting last May that no preferential treatment would be given to Sohi, who would have to contest and win the nomination in order to become candidate. The minutes of that meeting indicate Sohi was not a member of the party at the time. Bhullar contends that concerns about irregularities in his membership sales were not raised until Sohi changed his mind and decided he wanted to run. He feels the case is suspiciously similar to that involving Christine Innes in Toronto.

Innes, a two-time Liberal candidate who was blocked from contesting the nomination in the Trinity-Spadina byelection triggered by Olivia Chow's resignation, has filed a $1.5-million defamation lawsuit against Trudeau and Ontario Liberal co-chair David MacNaughton.

Innes' statement of claim says she and her team were "repeatedly and maliciously" accused publicly of bullying and intimidation after she refused a "backroom deal."

Despite Trudeau's pledge for "open, transparent and fair" nominations, Innes accuses the party of besmirching her character in attempt to hide the fact they were meddling in local riding politics.

"The defendants deliberately sacrificed Innes' reputation in order to create a smokescreen to shield Trudeau from public outcry for breaching his public vow of non-interference in local riding nominations," reads the statement of claim.

While none of the allegations have been proven in court, the executive of the riding association backed up her version of events and issued a public statement condemning the party's decision. "We want our members to decide who the candidate is," Julia Metus, then-president of the riding association, said at the time. In its statement, the executive accused the party of making "unproven and malicious allegations against the candidate and her family to cover up its desire to control the nomination process."

Bhullar feels similarly maligned. "I do not want myself to look like a moneyhungry person," he says. "I am bouncing back and forth on the idea of suing them and asking that any award I receive be donated to charities of my choice."

In the meantime, he instructed the party last week to stop the automatic monthly donation that had been coming from his bank account. He might just need the funds to pay for a lawyer.

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FEATURE // SANDWICHES

// Meaghan Baxter

Dagwood delights Farrow pushes sandwiches into new territory

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hat is it about the sandwich, the crust-collared everyman of cutlery-free food? It's a ubiquitous presence in western cuisine, almost guaranteed to be accounted for at any reputable lunch (or breakfast) setting.

Surely that's at least partly due to the ease of its creation and consumption—put some filling in the parenthetical hug of a bread shell

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and you're off to the gastrointestinal races—but for Justin Benson, the form's versatility is the first perk that comes to mind.

"You can turn anything into a sandwich, man! Honestly," he offers. Seated beside Laine Cherkewick, the pair are sipping coffee in Transcend on 109 Street, a few blocks away from Farrow: the tiny room from which they toil six days

a week.

Farrow's menu is deceptively simple—just four sandwich options, always anchored by the egg-bacon-greens offering of the Grick Middle, along with three imaginative alternatives that seem to elevate the possibilities of what sandwiches can be. They all have pun-names, too, like the Jerk Store (jerk brisket and slaw, pineapple,

Jack Havarti cheese), or Provolone 2: Lost in New York (Sangudo bacon, the titular cheese, lemon-garlic aioli, toasted walnuts, beets n' greens), and refuse to play by the usual rules of what does/doesn't go together between slices of bread.

"That's what we trip on," Benson notes. "We travel, go to this amazing place in Texas for BBQ, or you go to this place in San Francisco; you have these incredible dishes at these higher-end restaurants. Then it's always gears turning—how can we turn this into a sandwich?"

The names sometimes arrive before the sandwiches do.

"Someone will hit the pun or the topic," Cherkewick says, "and then try to make a pun off the name, and then base the sandwich off the pun. Or we'll do a sandwich—OK, these are the four ingredients—all of us will just think of a name, and whoever laughs the most at one, that's pretty much the winner."

Benson and Cherkewick didn't know each other prior to Farrow opening last year. The ownership behind Three Boars bought the tiny next-door space when it became available, then went hunting for quality staff (the two eateries share a downstairs prep space).

Benson came from years of coffee experience working at Vancouver's JJ Bean; Cherkewick draws from a proud lineage of kitchens, and he already had a five-year plan to open a sandwich shop circling in his head

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when Farrow started to coalesce.

"That's how my side went," he recalls. "I heard about their sandwich shop. I was like, 'Just to let you guys know, I have my five-year plan to open my own. I have the menu already.' They were like, 'Oh, really?'

And then a week later: 'Hey, you should help us out.'"

Benson and Cherkewick were introduced at Steel Wheels one late night, and from that presumably bulgogi-pizza-fuelled beginning has blossomed a massive success: the two figure they sell close to 1200 sandwiches each six-day week.

That's a statistic to check back on, as Farrow's popularity is only growing: word of mouth is spreading the name farther and farther "like crazy," Cherkewick says. "We have busier days now than we did in the summertime."

Sandwiches aside, there are a few other delectables on menu too, like brown-butter Rice Krispie squares.

Farrow has an emphasis on good coffee as well, and not just for by-the-cup purchase: Farrow sells equipment and beans in the hopes of getting people to explore the possibilities of home coffee brewing.

"We're super-stoked on getting people to make coffee at home," Benson says. "Because once you get the initial set-up, honestly, you don't need to come buy a coffee from us.

Buy the beans and do it at home.

There's so much joy in doing that."

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Origins of YEG cocktail culture Tracing the history of spirits and drinks to Edmonton's early days Edmonton didn't even have paved streets when the world's classic cocktails—the Old Fashioned, the Martini, the Sazerac—were being invented and enjoyed elsewhere in the world.

Indeed, while the phrase "cocktail culture" has been bandied about quite a bit recently, by virtue of our city's youth, Edmonton's drinks history is necessarily truncated—but still quite rich and fascinating in its own right.

This brand-new column will explore facets of Edmonton and Alberta's local history of spirits and cocktails, as well as the current drinks climate.

Each story will be paired with a matching recipe crafted by one of the city's preeminent bartenders.

For this inaugural column, what better place to start than at the very beginning?

Up until Alberta became a province in 1905, you could only get a drink at a handful of licensed hotels—unless you lived near an illegal whisky trading post in an area where the Northwest Mounted Police had little presence. Fort Whoop-Up (originally Fort Hamilton) near Lethbridge was the most notorious, famous for its "Bug Juice"—whisky flavoured with ginger, molasses, red pepper and chewing tobacco, which was diluted with water and then heated; thus the moniker "fire water." After 1905, a few places obtained a licence to sell liquor at both the wholesale and retails levels.

Cocktail culture? Hardly.

Then came Prohibition: the event which single-handedly changed the course of drinks history and left an indelible mark on the development of contemporary imbibing. Alberta's attitudes towards liquor and its current legislation is firmly rooted in Prohibitionist mentality.

Prohibition conjures up a slew of iconic images from popular culture: jazz and gin-soaked speakeasies, Al Capone and his band of rum-running gangsters, hidden moonshine stills and flapper girls with flasks tucked into their boots and coats. But those are all from American Prohibition, which was established by the Volstead Act and ran from 1920 to 1933.

Canada's own dry spell came earlier, beginning in the First World War. The federal government banned the importation, manufacture and transportation of alcohol as a wartime measure. This was lifted in 1919, though each of the provinces (for liquor falls under provincial jurisdiction in Canada) instituted their own periods of Prohibition starting during the First World War and ending in the early 20s. The notable exceptions were Quebec, which went dry for only a few weeks in 1919 until widespread public backlash caused the law to be repealed, and Prince Edward Island, which maintained Prohibition for a whopping 47 years from 1901 to 1948.

Alberta's Prohibition ran from 1916 to 1923.

Thus Canada was the nascence of Prohibition culture and lore: we were the first to have those illicit gin joints (they were more along the lines of rye and moonshine joints in Alberta), and the rum-running thugs practiced their tricks here first, with liquor flowing north from the US during Canada's early Prohibition days until it switched direction in the early '20s.

The world's cocktail culture was hugely shaped by Prohibition; the term "Prohibition-era" is applied to many of the classic cocktails that, while sometimes originating prior to Prohibition, became intimately and irrevocably associated with the period.

This was due to the shoddy quality of bathtub gin and other illicit liquors of that day: mixing them with bitters, liqueurs, fruit, juices and other ingredients was a means of masking nasty flavours and making them more palatable. Nowadays, with the prevalence of quality liquor and a revitalized cocktail culture, this principle has been turned on its head and cocktails are crafted to highlight, not hide, the flavour of liquor.

Prohibition history is awash in all kinds of sordid tales, which will be explored in future columns. For now, whet your cocktail appetite with one of the world's classic cocktails, which was invented prior to Prohibition but achieved immense popularity during that period: the Old Fashioned. V Old Fashioned "Over the years, this cocktail has changed and come back to its original form several times, from sickeningly sweet maraschino cherries and whole wedges of oranges, back to the essentials of spirit, sugar, water, bitters."— Shaun Hicks, bar director at Woodwork Ingredients 1 sugar cube Angostura bitters Orange peel 2 oz rye (Bulleit or George Dickel) Instructions • In a mixing glass, soak the sugar cube in five dashes of Angostura bitters.

• Add the orange peel and muddle with the sugar and bitters.

(The sugar abrades the peel and releases oils for both flavour and aroma.)

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New play The Mothers questions responsibility for a loved ones' actions An unconventional perspective // Mat Simpson

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ho are the mothers of the people that we consider to be monsters?"

Nicole Moeller has never been one to shy away from the darkest recesses of our world. Fascinated by the unwritten parts and unspoken voices of sensationalized news stories, the local playwright has won a slew of awards, including a Sterling for Outstanding New Play for her 2011 script An Almost Perfect Thing.

She is once again exploring an act of violence through an unconventional perspective in her newest piece, The Mothers.

"It's about a mother whose son has committed a violent crime," she explains. "It's a glimpse into her life and how she comes to terms with that, and her struggles with why he did this, how much she is to blame for it and how does she move forward from it."

The Mothers is a one-woman show—Moeller's first—and is de-

“HOW ON GOD’S GREEN EARTH CAN YOU BE BOTH A BOY AND A GIRL?”

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Until Sun, Mar 8 (7:30 pm; 1:30 pm Sunday matinees) Directed by Glenda Sterling Black Box Theatre, Alberta Avenue Community League, $15 – $22

buting at the SkirtsAFire Festival; festival director Annette Loiselle stars in the show. Moeller doesn't want to reveal the specific act of violence at the centre of the story, as the focus is on the mother, not the act or its perpetrator.

"I was first inspired to write it after listening to a read of the play Palace of the End, which has a character who represents Lynndie England—who tortured soldiers in Iraq," Moeller explains. "It just struck me: who is her mother? And how is her mother dealing with this, that her daughter is one of the most hated people in North America at that point?"

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An unspoken sense of familial complicity often runs through discussions of violent individuals, and indeed Moeller was interested in providing a voice to those families, who are so often shut out of the conversation (unless they are confirming our assumptions of abuse/neglect/childhood trauma, of course).

"For any of our loved ones, how much are we responsible for their actions?"

Moeller asks. "The universal in the play is how to move forward from things you can't control. I think so many of us have something like that, that we don't know if we're responsible for, or there's nothing we can do about it.

"And what if there's nothing to hang it on?" she continues. "What if there's nothing: no severe childhood trauma that you can pinpoint; what if you simply don't know? Because that just makes you even crazier, kind of—how do you possibly move on, when you don't know what happened?"

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Living works, relies on an interactive element: after the play's been performed, there's a guided reset, where audiences can stop the action of the show and debate and attempt to explore alternative ideas. It's a compelling experience, like improv with an exploratory, communityfocused bent. (Boyle Street Community League, $15)

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our country. maladjusted, first performed in 2013 and now on the road again due to demand, sets its sights on the mental health care system, using a trio of narratives to explore the barriers that make the system more difficult for everyone involved. maladjusted, like other Theatre for

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Holly de Moissac's farsighted has been up at Latitude 53 for a few weeks now, a selection of prints that make use of gold leaf, photographs of derelict Detroit buildings, text and human bodies.

The combination is geared towards provoking feelings about how we view decomposition and decay. And if you're not one to explore such ideas on your own, the U of A grad will be giving a talk on Saturday about her process and the series. (Latitude 53, free)

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K, so a cat-burglarizing Victo- (Melanie Piatocha) of an upper-class rian lady brought to heel by couple (Kendra Connor and Tom Edan earnest but slightly dense detec- wards, hamming it up delightfully) tive may not be the most realistic of turn to cat burglary as a hobby; afplots, but Drat! The Cat! is charming ter stealing several jewels from her moneyed contemporaries, she is purenough that you won't really care. sued by acting An obscure little Broadway musical Until Sat, Feb 28 (7:30 pm; detective Bob Purefoy (Chris that ran for only Saturday matinee at 2 pm) Cook) and a pair eight shows in 1965 Directed by Kate Ryan before disappear- Varscona Theatre, $20 of bumbling, campy keystone ing into musicaltheatre oblivion, cops (Jason Ira Levin's Drat! The Cat! has been Hardwick and Mike Zimmerman). resuscitated here in Edmonton on the Varscona stage. It's the newest Digging beneath the surface antics, entry from local company Plain Jane there's honestly little else going on: Theatre, which has a mandate to fer- Drat! The Cat! is a goofy, characterret out and revive the lesser knowns driven caper that relishes in type(and sometimes total unknowns) of casting and melodrama, but in an musicals long past. amiable, good-natured manner—it The script sees the bored daughter doesn't feel exploitative. Director

Nine lives of thievery!

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Kate Ryan and her veteran cast have obviously realized this, and therefore play up the fluff and pizzazz for all it's worth. They dexterously handle Milton Schafer's music, which is catchy but not overly memorable.

A surprise plot shift in the second act keeps the story from being completely signposted the whole way through, but the brunt of this play's charm rests on our well-cast lead couple: Piatocha is sassy and slinky, while you can't help but laugh at Cook's boyish naiveté.

Drat! The Cat! is not out to challenge or elevate its audience upon soaring heights of emotion, but that's just fine. This is a play that knows precisely what it is, and delivers just that: a buoyant, good-natured romp.

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e don't have what you we're likely to see grace a stage might call 'diversity,'" Tri- all year. Northern Light Theatre's sha Lee offers near the start of The excellent presentation of a deft Pink Unicorn regarding her small script from an unlikely perspecTexas town. She isn't complaining: tive is the sort of thing everyone Trisha Lee (Louise on both sides of Lambert) is not Until Sat, Feb 28 (7:30 pm; adthe issue should our usual theat- ditional late-night performance see.

Because our protagonist rical protagonist, on Fri, Feb 27 at 11:30 pm) particularly not Directed by Trevor Schmidt is right there in the type to speak ATB Financial Arts Barns, the middle: from out on LGBTQ is- $16 – $28 her white picketfence yard, beausues—adorned tifully envisioned in pink, with primped-up hair, a floral skirt and with quilted hills and craft-work with a pitcher of rose-tinted lem- trees (design by Trevor Schmidt, onade nearby, she radiates some who also directs with a balance small-town Stepford Wives version of comedy and heart), Trisha Lee walks us through her flailing atof gender normativity.

Yet, in The Pink Unicorn, and much tempts to understand the person to her chagrin, Trisha Lee finds her- her daughter is becoming. She self on the dividing edge of LGBTQ internet-searches a lot of terms issues when her daughter cuts off like LGBTQ, and delivers wincing her hair, comes out as genderqueer lines like "Gays and lesbians and and attempts to form a GSA at the by-what-nots" or, more offensively, high school. Mother ends up stuck "Gender is on a scale ... like autism!" between the church-going crowd she's always happily been a part of and her daughter's explorations of a spectrum she didn't even know existed, much less understands.

That it all lands well is thanks to Lambert's skillful performance: her Trisha Lee is utterly endearing, grounding some of the more cartoonish and/or bigoted lines of dialogue in an earnest, southern motherly sense of care. Because,

through that prism of the accepted social bigotry she's always known, she's squinting hard, trying to see the right way forward as a loving mother. Which, at its core, is what propels The Pink Unicorn: it's a show about mother attempting to

understand child and learning to love with an open mind, an idea that can often get lost in a time when politics are more binary than sexual orientation.

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That Edmonton finds itself dealing with similar issues in schools gives The Pink Unicorn a certain zeitgeisty pertinence, but even if that wasn't the case, this one-woman show by American playwright Elise Forier Edie, would still offer up the most endearing and hilarious look at our (mis)handling of queer issues that VUEWEEKLY.com | FEB 26 – MAR 4, 2015

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GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: 15 ON 35: artwork and written

insights by a selection of 15 long-term, mid-career, emerging and new members; Jan 17-Mar 28 • EARTH RHYTHMS; Feb 21-Apr 4 • ANATOMY OF MY HEART BY KARI WOO; Feb 21-Apr 4; Reception: Mar 7, 2-4pm

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Lions Seniors Recreation Centre, 11113-113 St • northernlightsclassic.ca • Top competitors from Alberta will be competing • Feb 28, 1-11pm • $25 (afternoon only), $40-$60 (afternoon and evening)

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • BMO World of Creativity: World of Boo: Jason Carter and Bridget Ryan; until Apr 16 • VIEW FROM A WINDOW: Photos by Edward Burtynsky, Robin Collyer, Eamon MacMahon, Laura St Pierre; Dec 6-Mar 1 • FUTURE STATION: 2015 ALBERTA BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART: Jan 24-May 3 • art For lunch: with FAVA (Mar 19) • Open Studio adult Drop-In; Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • SUBURBIA: A MODEL LIFE (Photographs 1970s-80s); Dec 6-Mar 1 • Curator’s tour: Future Station, Feb 28 • rBC New Works Gallery: OBSCURE INVERSIONS: Colin Smith; Dec 6-Mar 1 • Conversation with the artist: DaveandJenn (Mar 20) • all Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm

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DANCE EXPANSE FESTIVAL • PCL and Westbury Theatres, ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • Azimuth Theatre's annual festival of movement based art in which the physical body is the main site of creation • Mar 12-15

NORTHERN LIGHTS CLASSIC BALLROOM AND LATIN DANCE COMPETITION • Central

10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing. com • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 lesson with entry

SYLVAIN EMARD DANSE • Timms Centre for the Performing Arts, University of Alberta, 87 Ave 112 St • Driven by doubt and a lust for life, seven dancers are searching for their place, sketching the contours of multiple identities.

Their only language: subtle, energetic movement • Mar 6-7, 8pm • $35 (adults), $20 (students/ seniors)

• 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 •

artgalleryofstalbert.ca • PROXIMITIES: video installation works by Alysha Creighton; Feb 5-28 • TALKING CREATURES: Patrick Bulas, Megan Gnanasihamany, Gerri Harden Trish Shwart; Mar 5-Apr 18; reception: Mar 5, 7-9pm • art Ventures: Fantastic Fastener Puppets (Mar 21), 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • ageless art: Printed Narrative: (Mar 19), 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Preschool Picasso: Amazing Masks (Mar 21); for 3-5 yrs; pre-register; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)

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AFRICAN GRANDMOTHERS TRIBUNAL: SEEKING JUSTICE AT THE FRONTLINES OF THE AIDS CRISIS • Metro

124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Red Hot Reds; Feb 14-21 • DEBUT: BARBRA EDWARDS & MICHAEL THIESSEN; Feb 28-Mar 14

Cinema, Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • edmgrandmothers.org • 780.988.8392 • Highlights six African grandmothers as they prepare to give powerful and emotional testimony at a Tribunal held in Vancouver • Mar 8, 3:30-5:30pm • $10

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 •

Building, 9562-82 Ave • lorainej@shaw.ca • 780.642.8703 • Watch three films exploring the mysteries of life, death and dying • 2nd Sun, Feb-Apr, 1-4pm • Free (donations accepted)

EBDA BALLROOM DANCE • Lions Seniors Recreational Centre, 11111-113 St • 780.893.6828 • Mar 7, 8pm

savacava.com • Antony Cummings, Danielle Labrie, Émilie Lamache and guest Megla Marigan; Feb 27 • Nadia Tanguay, Angela Robichaud, Rachelle Bugeaud and guest Yardley Jones; Mar 13

CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149-122 ST, 780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute.com • Andrew Buszchak, Emilienne Gervais, and Ali Nickerson; Jan 27-Mar 7 • Swain Studio Print-In & Launch Party; Feb 21, 8-10pm; $5 (suggested donation)

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St •

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780.760.1278 • All The Flowers; Feb 25-Mar 18

Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • royalalbertamuseum.ca/events/movies/movies. cfm • Winter 2015 Make Us Laugh; Feb 9-Apr 13

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Kyle Beal: Electric Park; Mar 14-28 • Reception: Mar 14, 2-4pm

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • One Day (PG); Feb 27

LADIES NIGHT @ THE LIBRARY • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • In celebration of International Women's Day, Strathcona County Library is hosting a screening of the film Girl Rising. The collected stories of nine girls from developing countries, each who have overcome great obstacles to obtain an education, Girl Rising is voiced by renowned actors like Anne Hathaway and Salma Hayek • Mar 5, 6:30-9pm • Free METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: Fantastic Mr. Fox (Feb 28) • Roots: Heaven Adores You (Mar 3, 7pm) • Music Docs: The Ballad of Shovels and Rope (Mar 1, 4pm)

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS • 10729-104 Ave • happyharborcomics.com • Artist-in-Residence: DANIEL HACKBORN; until Apr 25 • OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215112 St • 780.426.4180 • Main Space: Navigating Boundaries: Jes McCoy and Kelsey Stevenson; Jan 29-Mar 5 • MAIN SPACE: Beyond Words: Linda Carreiro; Mar 12-14

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • NATURE’S BOUQUETS: Artist Teresa Graham; Feb 26-Mar 25; Reception: Mar 11, 6:30-8:30pm JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • Stephen G.A. Mueller: Feb 13-Mar 28 • Holly de Moissac: farsighted; Feb 13-Mar 23

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GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • As the Flowers Unfold: featuring Cheryl Feragen; Jan 17-Mar 3

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St • 780.492.2081 • MFA Graduation Show with Darian Stahl, MFA Printmaking; Feb 24-Mar 21 GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Teresa Graham: watercolour; Feb 24-Mar 30 • Gallery@501 Members Show by local artists; Feb 27-Mar 15 • Images and the Curious Mind by Robin Smith Peck; Mar 20-26 GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert • 780.459.2525 • Teresa Graham (watercolor); Feb 24-Mar 30

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • CONNECTING TO THE EMOTION; Feb 1-28 • WALLS OF THE MILNER: Filtered: Mixed Media by Paul Boultbee; Mar 1-31 • DISPLAY CASES: Edmonton Stamp Club; Mar 1-31 • DISPLAY CASES: Edmonton Public Library Makerspace Display; Mar 1-31

• 10634-124 St • louiephotogallery.com • The Manila Project by Larry Louie/The Mae Sot Project by Gerry Yaum; Feb 7-28

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • LARISSA BLOKHUIS AND SYLVIA GRIST: Glassworks from artist Larissa Blokhuis and collaged landscapes from Sylvia Grist; Feb 7-Apr 5

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • Maria Madacky - Exhibition of New Works: Feb 12-Mar 18

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • Wus’kwiy / Waskway: From Berry Baskets to Souvenirs; Jan 27-Apr 12

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • at least Once: a group exhibition of Paint Spot staff members working outside their comfort zones; Feb 20-Apr 2 • ARTISAN NOOK: Refuge, several small encaustic paintings by Jordan Pearson of flora and fauna of the national parks; Feb 20-Apr 2 • Vertical Space: UNFINISHED PAINTING CHALLENGE 3: Feb 20-Apr 20

NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE STOLLERY GALLERY • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 •

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Feature Artist Sima Khorrami; through Feb • FIREPLACE ROOM: Cindy James; through Mar

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Every Mon, 7pm; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park •

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780.467.8189 • strathconacountymuseum.ca • Celebrating Pioneer Women; Jan 20-Mar 21

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • GPS ADVENTURES CANADA EXHIBITION: Combining technology, nature, and hidden treasure; until Jun 1 • INDIANA JONES™ AND THE ADVENTURE OF ARCHAEOLOGY: until Apr 6; $26.50 (adult)/$19.50 (child 3-12)/$23.50 (youth 13-17), student, senior) • Dinosaurs Unearthed: May 15-Oct 11; $26.50 (adult), $19.50 (child), $23.50 (youth/student/senior)

U OF A MUSEUMS • Human Ecology Bldg Gallery, Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave • LOIS HOLE: THE QUEEN OF HUGS; until Mar 22 • Charles Stankievech: The Soniferous Æther of The Land Beyond The Land Beyond; Jan 22-Mar 21

LITERARY 2015 HUMAN LIBRARY • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park •780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ab.ca/humanlibrary • Borrow a person instead of a book, and listen his or her story and be able to ask questions • Mar 8, 1:30-3:30pm • Free

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Mercury Room,10575-114 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • facebook.com/mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner

THE KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • Glass

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102

NAKED CYBER CAFÉ • 10303-1008 St • The Spoken Word: Featuring writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems • 1st Wed ea month, 7:30pm

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@ gmail.com

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A monthly play reading series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ab.ca • STEAMPUNK, FANTASY AND SWORD -- OR LIGHT SABRE -- PLAY: meet a panel of fantasy professionals who will give you a stepby-step tool kit for building fantasy worlds in your own stories, whether you’re writing about steam-run vampire automatons or dystopic zombies • Mar 10, 7-8:30pm • Free

TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle •

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FIRST TIME/LAST TIME • shadowtheatre.org

MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave •

projectheroes.ca • projectheroes.ca • Project Heroes: The Faces and Stories of Sacrifice: Get to know the Canadian soldiers who died in the Afghanistan war through their eyes, in photographs, videos and letters • Nov 3-Mar 4

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DRAT! THE CAT - THE MUSICAL • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • plainjanetheatre.com • It’s 1890 in New York City and a well-born woman is not content to settle down and get married like the rest of the nice young ladies, so she decides to turn to a life of crime and turns the city upside down in pursuit • Feb 21-28

LIFE DEATH AND THE BLUES • Club Cabaret,

Door Coffeehouse Reading Series: Lineup for the February Glass Door Coffeehouse Reading Series includes Kessler Douglas, Singer/Songwriter; Mark Kozub, Author, "Weird Edmonton"; Nancy Mackenzie, author, "Nerve Line"; Donita WiebeNeufeld, author, "Thirty Bucks". Host: Jannie Edwards. Two-minute open mic. Books and CDs for sale • Feb 26, 7-9pm • Donations accepted

Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • BIMPE VIII: Feb 26-Mar 28

varsconatheatre.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs every Mon, 7:30pm • Until Jun 1 • $13 or $9 with a $30 membership; at the door (cash) or at tixonthesquare.com

401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ab.ca • Writer in Residence Gail Sidonie Sobat will host an after-hours evening of fireside readings and performances from censored books and songs. Adults ony • Feb 28, 7-9pm • Free (register at sclibrary.ab.ca, or call 780.410.8600)

Library, 17650-69 Ave (Collingwood) • Hosted

by Foundation for Higher Learning. Suitable for experienced & new meditators • Mar 5 & Mar 12, 7:30-8:45pm • Free

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave •

BIG SPEAKEASY II • Strathcona County Library,

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • SPRING THAW: spring highlights new work form gallery artists in the discipline of photography, painting-landscape, abstraction, figurative, and sculpture; Mar 7-Apr 7

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com • INTERLUDE: by Pat Service, Tim Rechner, and Jim Stokes; Mar 7-28

Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun 13

• Ben and Airlea have nothing in common except a mutual attraction, but the stars align to bring them together. The last thing they want is commitment so they embark on a relationship of first dates and last loves, heartbreaks and soul mates...a one night stand that lasts a lifetime • Mar 11-29

INTRODUCTION TO MEDITATION: DISCOVERING YOUR INNER LIGHT • Lois Hole Public

Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR: Nov 28-Apr 12 • NOWHERE PEOPLE: Photos, giving a human face to the global issue of statelessness,

by Greg Constantine; Dec 6-Mar 22 • QUESTIONS AND COLLECTIONS V: RESEARCH AT THE MUSEUM; Jan 28-Apr 8

CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A

423.3487 • audreys.ca • Charalee Graydon "The Judgement Game" Reading & Signing; Mar 3, 7pm • Gary Garrison "Human On The Inside: Unlocking The Truth About Canada's Prisons" Book Launch; Mar 5, 7pm • Merit Travel Talk: Burma & Travelers Health; Mar 10, 7pm

thenina.ca • SCOTT BERRY - CONFUSEMENT; Feb 12-27

PRINCE OF WALES ARMOURIES HERITAGE CENTRE • 10440-108 Ave • info@

THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 90 minutes of improvised entertainment that unveils scenes, songs and choreographed numbers completely off the cuff based on audience suggestions • Every Fri, until Jun 26, 11pm • $15 (online, at the door) • grindstonetheatre.ca

Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com

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9828-101 A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • Feb 11-Mar 1 Rapid Fire Theatre • Improv, a high-stakes game of elimination that will see 11 improvisers compete for audience approval until there is only one left standing • 1st Sat each month, 7:30-9:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre.com)/$15 (door)

MALADJUSTED • Boyle Street Community League, 9538-103A Ave • 780.735.4943 • An intimate journey, builds up to a breathtaking crisis and then stops. Next, at this heightened moment of suspense, visitors are invited to engage with the characters from a safe, entertaining and creative space where anything is possible • Feb 27, 7:30pm; Feb 28, 2pm • $15 (Eventbrite and at the door)

THE MOTHERS • Alberta Avenue Community League, 9210-118 Ave • skirtsafire.wordpress.com • A play about a mother, her estranged teenage boy and the episode that binds them and isolates them • Feb 26-Mar 8 • $15-$25 OH BOY, BUDDY HOLLY! • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, #2690, 8882-170 St • It's Shallow Water's last graduation before it closes and to save it, the grade 12 kids, have written letters to their favorite rock and roll stars, begging them to play at their graduation dance. The kids have tried everything, and now the whole town is being swept away by the campaign! In response, Buddy Holly, The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry arrive to save the day • Feb 7-Apr 12 THE PINK UNICORN • PCL Studio in the ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • northernlighttheatre.com • Trisha Lee, a Christian widow living in a small Texas town, finds herself grappling with fear, confusion and ostracism when her teenage daughter announces she is "gender queer" and is starting a chapter of the Gay and Straight Alliance at the local high school. When the school principal rejects the GSA's application for inclusion as a school club, Trisha must choose sides in her rapidly dividing town • Feb 20-28

THAT'S TERRIFIC • Varscona Theatre • last Sat ea month • Nov 29-Jul 25

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Jan 16-Jun 12 • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

VIGILANTE • Citadel, Maclab stage • citadeltheatre.com • 9828 101A Ave • The Donnellys were a fierce clan, not afraid to stand up for themselves and to take what they felt was theirs. But as time goes on, they find themselves increasingly at odds with their neighbours • Mar 7-29 WINTER PRODUCTION: DIDO AND AENEAS • Co-production between The Concordia School of Music and Theatre at Concordia • Mar 6, 7:30pm; Mar 8, 2pm; Mar 13, 7:30pm; Mar 15, 2pm

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The Dardennes reflect on restraint, inner trajectories and casting in Two Days, One Night

with new strength.

LD: Yes, both conflicts exist in tandem,

as you say. But ultimately the more important resolution in this story concerns overcoming fear.

VW: Besides the fact that she's an ex-

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fter having had to take time off them the César and the Oscar. The due to a debilitating bout of de- Dardennes, as always, keep the campression, Sandra (Marion Cotillard) erawork exacting, bracing, dogged, loses her job at a Belgian solar panel always moving yet highly attuned factory when her co-workers are given to emotional shifts and the smallest the choice to receive a significant bo- nuances of behaviour: the way one nus only if Sandra is laid off and they guy keeps squeezing his gloves as all agree to pick up the slack. Certain he speaks, the way another suddenly that the vote was unfairly influenced starts to cry, perhaps as a way of reby their foreman (Olivier Gourmet), leasing his guilt, though it also serves Sandra's friend convinces their boss to empower Sandra—he cries so she to allow for a second vote. She also, doesn't have to. We allow a little along with Sandra's husband Manu touch of artifice as a way of reaching a greater truth.

(Fabrizio RonI spoke with the gione), convinces Sat, Feb 28 – Tue, Mar 10 Dardennes at the Sandra to spend Two Days, One Night Toronto Internathe weekend mak- Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc tional Film Festival ing personal visits Dardenne to each and every Metro Cinema at the Garneau last September. co-worker, asking  They were charming and patient, them to give up especially given their bonus and vote in her favour. Our heroine is my paucity of French and their inabilfaced with a double challenge: while ity to speak English. We were, thankappealing to her co-workers' sense of fully, joined by BC-based Ana Maria solidarity, Sandra must also convince Solana Tristant, the best translator them that she is indeed emotion- I've ever worked with. Without her, ally fit to return to work. So even this interview would not likely have though she's facing the possibility of been nearly so fluid and pleasurable. catastrophic unemployment—she has two children to feed and Manu only VUE WEEKLY: From the start of Two earns a modest income as a server in a Days, One Night, Sandra talks about buffet restaurant—she needs to pull the importance of not crying, of holdherself together. "You must not cry," ing in emotion. It strikes me that this she instructs herself. could be considered a kind of phiThe title could almost be that of a losophy that one could apply to your thriller, emphasizing a time limit, that films, this idea of restraining feeling sense of urgency that drives most until it can no longer be contained. every film from Belgium's great fra- LUC DARDENNE: It's true. We like the reternal filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc tention of emotion. No excess or overDardenne. And Two Days, One Night performance. But in this case Sandra's does, in a sense, work like a thriller. character actually demands this apIts premise is undeniably schematic, proach. She's dealing with an illness. yet within that schema exists very She was crying all the time, unable real stakes, real heart and gorgeous to manage her emotions. Now she's naturalistic performances. Cotillard, coming out of that and needs to hold the first movie star to appear in a everything inside, even when receiving Dardenne film, has justly been nomi- very bad news. Even in the car when nated for numerous awards, among that sad song by Petula Clark comes

on, she tells her husband to leave it on. She wants to try and face it.

VW: But it echoes, say, L'enfant, in

which tension builds and only finds release in the very last moments, as in the films of Bresson. It's interesting that depression, which Sandra suffers from, is very internal, while your films tend to be very task-oriented, generating drama from what's external and evident. Depression isn't an easy thing to make cinematic.

JEAN-PIERRE DARDENNE: Yes, but Sandra's inner trajectory is manifested in the actions that we see. We see her getting up. We see her knocking on doors. We see her talking to people about this very difficult subject. We can only film the exterior. It's true that she's a passive character and must be forced into action by the narrative. There are physical things happening to her as well, things beyond her control—she's losing her voice.

To place a character, to play a scene, is to find a rhythm. What's happening to a character internally will be informed by this rhythm. When Sandra takes all those pills we hear them drop in the cup one at a time, slowly.

That sound gives a sense of solitude.

We hope that these details help to transmit her inner state.

LD: You might also notice that in many scenes she's sort of in the background, behind other people.

It's a way of conveying fear. The story is partially about her stepping into the foreground.

cellent actress, what made you feel that Marion Cotillard would be ideal for this role?

JPD: We wanted to work with Marion and, frankly, we wanted to work with a known actress. The first time we met Marion we actually spoke to her of another role. But when we went back to the script for Two Days we realized that she would perfect for this and wrote the final draft with her in mind. We had to consider how it would be to bring Marion into our family, as well as asking the question of how she might enrich our family. It's not necessarily easy to bring in this big star to work with our little team.

LD: We needed from Sandra a fragility, a vulnerability. Marion has this in her. You can see very often in the film that Sandra is present, but something is missing in her eyes. She's not there.

Her husband or friend tells her she has

to do something so she does it, but she's not doing it fully. Marion really has the capacity to convey this and it's exactly what we wanted for Sandra.

VW: The vulnerability is also in the

physicality and the costume, no? I think about Sandra in her boots, the sound they make the way they change her gait, and her tank-top, her shoulders naked in the hot sun, as though she could almost melt.

LD: It's true about the sun weighing heavily on her. But those boots, as you say, were very important. The sound of them. You can hear her walking, hear her coming. She's there. She's becoming stronger by dint of her walk.

We tried her in tennis shoes, but it made her like a ghost. The silence. And while the clothes she wears betray some fragility, she also wears pink or red as a way to show the world that she's OK. So you see, whether she truly feels it inside or whether she has to project it, to force it through her externals, Sandra, above all, is trying to say, "I'm here. And I'm fighting."

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conflict: solidarity versus self-interest and Sandra's passivity versus her desire for self-reliance. In the end there's no unequivocal triumph for solidarity, but there is a triumph for self-reliance. Or at least tranquillity.

The "good fight" has endowed Sandra

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orget Friday After Next or Shark- even asked to be in this comedy-sinknado 2: The Second One. Hot hole). They all Jacuzzi into an alternaTub Time Machine 2, coasting in on tive time-jetstream where, in 2025, and boasting a title, a concept and a they must catch the person who will, script so lame that they're nowhere somehow back in 2015, shoot Lou close to being funny—even if you right in the groin (Dickhead Shot In were spun out on more psychotropic the Dick apparently not quite making substances than the characters here the cut as HTTM2's subtle subtitle).

Lots of talk by take—proves to be the male memthe sequel no one Now playing bers of Cock & wanted to the comDirected by Steve Pink Co about male edy that nobody  members enever gave that much sues, climaxing in of a steaming-sauna shit about back in 2010. It's a slum- a male rape scene (for a game show) ming muck in the bottom of a grungy, that, being neither cringe comedy nor homophobic, succeeds only in being nasty old whirlpool.

The gang of stupid pals-with-penis- pointlessly, stupidly and offensively a es—Nick Webber (Craig Robinson), waste of your optic nerve.

Lou Dorchen (Rob Corddry), son Jacob (Clark Duke)—returns, minus Drugs are partaken; parties are Adam Yates (John Cusack, who was partied; characters are grating, apparently, luckily for his career, not prating caricatures; a Terminator-

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like time-travel plot plods along.

There's also, in this snore-gah!bored smorgasbord: gratuitous nudity; a "dickpad" device; "Nice tits!" said to someone's wife; a dog on a hoverboard; projectile vomit; Christian Slater; a syringe, extracted from swollen testicles, causing "ball juice" to laser-shoot into friends' faces; "I got a Buick dick" vying with "I fucked his wife, a little bit ... in the vagina" for stupidest line of the year. A vortex to no-laughs-land, this spa-sucks you into the kind of get-together where one extroverted jerk insistently makes flat, tedious jokes over and over, more desperately and drunkenly, until the party's ruined 15 minutes in. So, now, come 2020, everyone ready for Hot Tub Tim3 Machin3 The 3quel?

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Big News from Grand Rock E

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ven as major newspapers—tinkering with paywalls or "native advertising," cutting back on coverage, struggling to compete with Buzzfeed's "listicles"—are trying to figure out how to keep their bylines in the black, they've been shaken by basic journalism ethics scandals in these online-headline years: Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, Canada's own red-and-white-faced Margaret Wente. In the tepid tradition of affable, shruggingly small-scale and smallscreen Canadian film comedies (see: Corner Gas, Little Mosque on the Prairie), Big News from Grand Rock sees a small-town editor, Leonard Crane (Ennis Esmer), making up stories to keep his beloved paper rolling off the presses.

Yep, this is a movie where bundles of the latest edition are dropped off at doorsteps downtown (actually Midland, ON), The Weekly Ledger has no notable web presence, the owner slaps his palm with a rolled-up copy, reporters scribble in flip-pads, and townspeople read articles aloud to themselves. It's antiquated Opens Friday and often hokey, Directed by Daniel Perlmutter though innocuous,  stuff. But is it fun or, at least, funny? Well, there are grins and whispers of amusement to be found, mostly early on. Two

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of upbeat, cheery editor Leonard's reporters, clueless Bill (Peter Keleghan, expert at these sorts of roles) and mousy, sweater-wearing Amanda (Kristin Booth) are understatedly comical, as is the enthusiastic police chief. Esmer makes Leonard that little bit sad and lost. And the movie finds some humour in a kind of awkward, halting Canadian-ness— even a thuggish hoser's threat comes off as a bit hesitant and too polite.

Otherwise, it's all a rather overlong (even at 87 minutes), ho-hum affair ... particularly the affair, a sudden romance between go-go big-city reporter Lucy (Meredith MacNeill) and Leonard that's unnecessary and devoid of any chemistry. The basic premise is fairly broad and remains fairly silly: Leonard devises stories based on movies (Easy Money, Overboard, Extreme Measures) to grab readers' attention and attract advertisers; soon, though, one story seems to have a grain of truth. It's easy to point out plotholes and the story, a bit pathetically, hinges on a pothole. But it's not that Big News from Grand Rock lacks bigness or grandness—its problem is that there's no new-ness or bite or grit to its merely amiable comedy.

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belt of K-Cups encircling Earth—10 times over.

That was the news about a year ago, when Mother Jones and several other media sources reported that, in 2013, the number of used Keurig coffee pods (called K-Cups) would wrap around the equator 10-and-ahalf times. A backlash began against Keurig and continues to this day—a parody video called Kill Your K-Cup circled the web in January—yet Keurig's earnings continue to increase steadily; the company reported an 11-percent increase in the fourth quarter of 2014. Obviously, most of us don't give two individually portioned coffees about the environmental A-bomb these things are.

Keurig Green Mountain, formerly Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, is a Vermontbased coffee roaster and manufacturer of single-cup coffee brewers and portion packs. While there are several other competitors, Keurig is the dominant force in the individual-coffee marketplace. K-Cups are non-recyclable due to their composition of a mixture of different materials: foil lid, plastic cup, paper filter and coffee grounds. For their part, Keurig has recognized the seriousness of this issue (or at least the potential impact to sales revenue) and have mandated some sustainability targets: by

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Freestyle Ski & Snowboard Competition 2020, the company promises that all K-Cups will be 100-percent recyclable.

But even if they are made out of recyclable plastic, that doesn't necessarily mean they'll actually be recycled.

"We often get smaller pieces of stuff like single-service creamers or these new coffee cups, or straws, caps, lids, that kind of thing," says Garry Spotowski, education programs coordinator for the City of Edmonton Waste Management Services. "That kind of stuff, to date, has gone to a landfill. It would go out as residuals, as stuff that we didn't want at the recycling plant."

Spotowski, who has been in his position since the late '90s and was an Edmonton garbage collector back in the '70s (when virtually all waste ended up in landfills) explains that these small items, even if they are made out of recyclable materials, simply cannot be processed by the recycling-plant machinery: they quite literally fall through the cracks and are sent to the landfill. These residuals comprise some 40 percent of the total waste stream remaining after the organic waste is separated and sent to the Edmonton Composting Facility (which started in 2000), prompting the city's Waste Management Branch to investigate energy recovery as a viable means to benefit from this stream of residuals, as it is quite rich in high heat-value materials.

This research resulted in a partnership between the Waste Management Branch and Enerkem, a company that has constructed a brand-new waste-to-biofuel facility using gasification to transform Edmonton's non-recyclable residuals into ethanol and methanol.

The facility is the first large-scale version of its kind in the world, and while it is currently still conducting testing, Spotowski notes it should be in full operation quite soon.

"Don't use those Keurig things!" Spotowski says. "From a waste management point of view they don't make any sense at all. We always preach reduce and waste reduction— we never encourage single-service creamers or these new coffee things, or even bottled water for that matter. But we also recognize that these things exist in the marketplace and they're being used, and we are waste managers—we have to manage that waste as effectively as we can, even though we'd prefer people to buy in bulk."

Admittedly, K-Cups have become an environmental lightning rod: the poster child for our skewed prioritization of convenience over sustainability. But they are only one among many different types of small pieces of waste generated by everyone every day.

A much bigger issue is why the responsibility always seems to be placed upon individual consumers to clean up their act—especially when 77 percent of the solid waste generated in Alberta comes not from the residential sector, but from the Industrial Commercial Institutional (ICI) sector. The ICI encompasses everything from the province's big manufacturers to commercial businesses to institutions like universities, schools and hospitals.

"In terms of increasing the recycle rate, we need some kind of controls on the ICI," says Grant Cameron, executive director of Alberta

Plastics Recycling Association (APRA). "Right now, who pays for recycling pretty much in Canada, and certainly in Alberta and in Edmonton, is the taxpayer."

The ICI sector has little-to-no legislation governing how it deals with waste. Most of it ends up going straight to the landfill, meaning that while the K-Cups you use at home will soon be recovered at the Enerkem facility, the ones you use at work will still end up in the dump. The staggering amount of ICI waste is why APRA, an industry-sponsored not-forprofit, works with various bodies to increase the rate of capture and diversion of plastics and other materials from the waste stream.

A game-changing move for both residential and ICI waste, and something that APRA strongly advocates for, is the legislation of Extended Producer Responsibility: the producers, brand owners and/or first importers of commodities—essentially, the people profiting from selling stuff—are the ones who have to deal with all the waste from those commodities.

"It's far better to say, if you sell something in the marketplace and it comes in a package, part of the business transaction means you have to get involved in a scheme to deal with the packaging," notes Cameron.

He explains that several provinces, notably British Columbia and Ontario, are moving towards this type of legislation; Alberta is on that path, but the recent downturn of our economy has slowed progress considerably. This would see companies like Keurig have to take the steps to deal with all those used K-Cups, rather than individuals and their municipalities.

Until that legislation is passed, however, it's up to us to deal with that pile non-recyclable junk: which is a far larger problem than it appears when you're tossing a single K-Cup into the trash.

"It's easy to talk about garbage if you're only thinking about it in terms of the two or three bags that your household generates a week, but when you see how much is generated by a city of one million [people], you know that we can't just keep digging holes in the ground and filling them up," Cameron says.

Edmontonians are lucky to have the Enerkem facility; indeed, our city has been a global leader in recycling and waste recovery since we implemented curbside recycling service in 1988. But just because our city has a robust recycling program doesn't give us a pass on what we toss in the trash: limiting your personal generation of small pieces of garbage, no matter how seemingly insignificant, is the only thing that has an immediate effect on the environment. Single-service products will always be an environmental burden, no matter how many biofuel facilities are constructed— and that facility is moot anyway when the stuff goes into a non-residential garbage bag.

Ultimately, our greatest power as individual consumers is our wallets. You may choose not to vote in a political election, but every time you open your wallet, you're voting for a company—which one do you want to see in power?

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Enough is not enough Not Enough Fest aims to make a more inclusive music scene

t's certainly a great many wonderful things, but "diverse" isn't always one of the descriptors you can attach to our local music scene, at least not when we're talking about the people most frequently seen on stages performing their art.

That isn't a shot at anyone's artistic quality or worth, but a different measure of criticism: for all the talent on display on stages and in disciplines around town, its visible creators tend to skew towards a particular subset of people: often white, often male, often the heteronormative. Is that really everybody who wants to be on stage?

Ostensibly, those same venues and methods of expression should be just as available to anyone who'd what to use them. But the hurdles between stage and those who don't have a heteronormative background to match that of the scene aren't always quite so simple, or visible to those that have never been burdened by them.

Many people who would happily find themselves creating don't feel comfortable entering that situation, or welcomed when they do.

In response to that lack of diverse representation, Not Enough Fest has emerged in Edmonton: it's an all-day, 17-band show—all of them new, created to debut at the festival—set to offer an antipode to the situation at hand: a place where women, queer, genderfluid, trans and other nonbinary people can create and perform without many of the usual worries.

The festival's necessity to the community, note organizers Stephanie Olsen and Kendra Cowley (two of the seven involved in facilitating Not Enough), revealed itself fully in the discussions leading up to the event.

"I think Not Enough Fest has given people an avenue to share some expe-

riences, that have turned out to feel very common," Olsen says, sitting beside Cowley in a university-area coffee place. "Of feeling excluded from the music scene, or feeling not able or not confident in yourself to perform. A lot of those barriers we talked about were things that I think were very validating and affirming to talk about with each other, and realize that those are really common struggles."

"I think frustrations around the lack of representation in our pre-existing communities," Cowley adds. "Wanting to hear and see things that resonate with us a little bit more, and knowing those voices are out there, but that they maybe just are not being centered in those spaces already. And a little bit of frustration around people not necessarily understanding or seeing why this is important."

The fesitval's Edmonton iteration began when Olsen and Cowley saw a post on Weird Canada about how to start a Not Enough Fest—there have been a few other NEFs in cities throughout North America, including Portland and Winnipeg—and, after a few discussions, they agreed to chase the idea through to fruition. The duo brought more organizers on board and started putting the idea out into the community.

The response was far larger than they'd anticipated. The 17 brand-new bands slated to perform their first shows at Not Enough Fest is a much higher number than the 10 the organizers were expecting. The bands span from folk-comedy to punk to singersongwriters to anything, really; participants were encouraged to explore any musical inkling, rather than try to fit a particular genre mould.

Cowley notes there's been excellent support from the existing scene, too.

"We've experienced a lot of support of people acting in solidarity with us," Cowley says. "And doing so from a respectable distance, which is really great. Not attempting to co-op what it is we're trying to do, and participating and helping where asked."

Offering that sense of inclusivity and access has been the focus of the festival's months-long lead up: there have been instrument drives to alleviate the financial costs of affording instruments to play, which netted about 40 pieces of donated gear. There were skill shares to allow anyone the chance to learn any instrument they wanted, mixers to find potential bandmates, and the organizers rented jam space to give bands a place to practice.

"The more we talked to people in the music community, the more it was obvious that people really wanted to see this materialize," Cowley explains.

"At least 50 people came to that first mixer; It was pretty apparent, early on, there was a pretty big desire and interest."

It was at the last one of those meetyour-band mixers that Maxi Rad— touted as "(poppy) feminist punk with a screamo sensibility"—took shape.

"We were one of the last bands to get together—and none of us knew each other before that," says Mandie Jichita, sitting in a basement beside her bandmates Meagan Baker, Caitlin Hoffman and Kavita Sundar. "The first jam that we had, we came up with one song, and half of another song."

"We just really clicked," adds Baker, who plays bass. "And even if we're coming from different directions musically, have really supported each other, have been like, 'Oh, you wanna try that? Sweet. We're all on board for it.' And built each other up and collab-

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orated on all of these songs that we had going into it."

They note that the festival's DIY spirit was emboldening: after searching for a potential drummer, Sundar decided to sit down behind the kit just a month before the show.

"I think that's the most important thing, is the enabling of creation," Hoffman says. "So many of us are creatively inclined—that resonates in many human beings, but if you don't feel you'll be taken seriously on account of your gender identity or your lifestyle, it's really inhibiting and isolating if you consider yourself an artist."

The Not Enough Fest process, they note, has been an inversion of that isolation: nothing but support, both laterally (from other bands, from each other) and from the organizers. And for Maxi Rad, it's an ethos that has manifested all along the process.

"Each of us has a song that we wrote, and we all collaborated on each others' songs, so we have that little bit of centre stage," Sundar says. "This whole fest is about expressing yourself, so I think it's really cool we all got the opportunity to put out what we got."

That sentiment is echoed by Little Tits, the synth-driven duo of Nicole McDonal and Dustin Danyluk. The two had known each other since high school, albeit with differing musical tastes, but have found the festival an opportunity to explore some recently stirring feelings of wanting to create, and to do so in a safe, supportive way.

"I hadn't really done music for years," McDonal offers. "I was in bands when I was 14, and I was the only girl in the band. It's been years since I've done music, and it's only recently I started considering it. ... [Not Enough Fest]

helped me to actually do it, instead of, I dunno, have it be a nice thought."

"For me, performing in drag is not something I'm comfortable doing at any random show," Danyluk says.

"There's all kinds of safe things that happen there at Not Enough Fest that are sweet, for us and for other people."

"All of the workshops I went to, all of the events they put on prior to the festival—It's just such a happy, understanding, welcoming place," he continues. "I've never felt more comfortable with people, or not feeling like I've been judged, or that I had to be a certain way. I just wanted to be a part of that."

Which, Olsen notes, is the goal. She points out that the festival's sense of community is translating beyond simply preparing for the upcoming show: people who didn't previously know each other attending shows together, connecting into a new community of people who share a passion for a medium of expression.

"I think music in some ways—in terms of resources and what you need to make it—is a fairly accessibly form of cultural production," Olsen says.

"Not like being on television, where you need those external factors to conspire with you. Everybody can create music. It's a form of expression that everybody has a right to, and should be accessible but is often inaccessible to some communities or voices."

"There's just so much support, and excitement," Olsen continues. "Both from the general community who aren't necessarily participating in bands but wanting to support the project. There were so many people just waiting for a project like this."

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Viet Cong

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like how beats and riffs get naturally psychedelic after you just listen to the same thing for a long time," Scott Munro says. "Where you start losing yourself in it a little bit, and not remembering where the first beat is anymore. " It's an axiom that Munro and the rest of Viet Cong certainly apply to the band's own work: like a post-punk Philip Glass project, the Calgary four-piece lets rhythms and instruments layer upwards as much

as it lets them expand outwards, building up an enormous, tectonic emphasis of towering drums, angular walls of guitar and bass and droning, disaffected chants that trade in bleak sentiments of the world at large.

When repetition is your forte, there's the added danger of getting lost in the loop, too.

"You start to look at all of the different ways you could look at the pattern," Munro notes of where his

mind goes while performing a repetitive sequence of sounds. "You're always riding that knife-edge: if you forget where it's actually supposed to start, it could just fall apart at any second. It's almost easier when you have something else to do: I find when I'm playing something repetitious but I'm also singing something, then I never get lost in it, 'cause I'm always focused back on something.

It's always the risk where I'm just playing guitar or just playing key-

boards. That's when I start to think about it a little too much."

Munro—along with bandmates Daniel Christiansen (guitar), drummer Mike Wallace and vocalist/ bassist Matt Flegel, the latter two of the now defunct Calgary band Women—are enjoying a pleasantly repeating circle of acclaim around Viet Cong's self-titled debut. The seven-song album was recorded in a barn-turned-studio in rural Ontario; the band wanted to distance itself from local distractions while recording.

"I love making records in a space outside the city I live in," Munro explains. "People always have things come up in the city. Somebody's like, 'Oh, I agreed to work one evening,' or 'I totally forgot I'd have dinner on Friday night'. Whereas when you're in another city, that just doesn't come up. You're gone."

The band also spent a few days tracking vocals at the Peterborough studio of Greg Keelor, of Blue Rodeo fame.

"He has a wood-burning stove in the control room, so we were just cooking stew while listening to the playback," Munro recalls. "It was a really

beautiful time; his spot's really nice, and he's a champion of a gentleman."

But, back to repetition: on knowing how far to go—when you're locked into a groove, when do you know it's time to move on?—Munro recalls an improvisation class he took at Mount Royal College with nowdeceased trumpet player Bob Day. "He'd say, when you're improvising—this is in a jazz context, but you can bring it over to rock pretty easily—if you're soloing and playing a melody, and you have a part that you think is good, the part that speaks to you, play it another couple times," he explains. "You know you're always one listen ahead of the audience. So you can always afford to hold on to something for a little bit longer than you think you can, even if the first few times you heard it was just in your brain.

"I think we always try to hold on to something for long enough that it's maybe a little bit uncomfortable," he continues. "I still feel like we haven't gone as far as we could on some things. You listen to those newer Swans records, and they make us look like 11-year-old children."

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Single Mothers W

hen Michael Peterson picks two years, and we just did a lot of up the phone, he claims to be touring and it took a lot of shifting having the time of his life—well, not around with moving different citquite, but what's unfolding in front of ies," Peterson says, explaining the group decided to keep the album on him certainly sounds entertaining.

"I honestly wish you could see the short side. "So it took forever to what was happening right now," he come out, but when we finally got laughs, referring to the ridiculous it down to these 10 songs, the condriving situation he's found himself scious decision to do that was pretty in at a gas station in North York in much based on the idea that we just Toronto while getwanted to make a ting the van ready Fri, Feb 27 (8 pm) statement when we came out with for their tour With the Dirty Nil, Cold Lungs, the next day. He Lesser Man a record. We figdoesn't get into Mercury Room, $10 ured a 30-minall the details, but ute blow would sums it up as "just the way I'm driv- be the best way to do that, just no fuckin' around." ing and everyone's reaction."

If Peterson's gas-station adventures are the extent of Single Mothers' Negative Qualities comes out swingdriving woes, the band will be in ing and doesn't stop until the final great shape, though the hardcore note. The recording was started in punk group has dealt with its fair Los Angeles before being finished share of strife in the past. Its debut in London, ON, Toronto and upstate album, Negative Qualities, was two New York, and there's an unrelenting years in the making—or more, if you sense of discontent that permeates count the fact lead vocalist Drew the tracks. Single Mothers parted Thomson formed the nascent ver- ways with its drummer during its sion of the band in 2008, though time in LA, and Peterson—who's held more than a dozen lineup changes nearly every role in the band at this slowed its progress—and was finally point—stepped in on drums until released on Peterson's birthday, Oc- Brandon Jagersky was recruited right before a UK tour in 2013.. tober 7, 2014.

"We wrote maybe 30 or more songs "So it was kind of a culmination of for this record over a span of, like, everything, both life experiences and

just the thing that was happening at the time when we were recording. I think that comes through a little bit," he says with chuckle of disbelief, but Single Mothers has reached a point where it seems to be on more solid footing with its current lineup.

The album title plays into the grievances around the album, too.

"It's actually a lyric from one of the B-sides on the record," Peterson explains. "But the reason we chose that one was because we felt like it was sort of a good way to wrap up what the entire album is about—sort of these negative qualities about life, just the frustration and angst and relationships and the mundane and routine and boredom and all that stuff."

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Illy I

lly has been checking the weather forecasts hourly. The Australian rapper is at home in Melbourne, soaking up all the glorious sun and warmth before he starts his first Canadian tour—in the dead of winter.

"I keep updating the weather apps for [Western Canada] to see if that shit's going to improve," Illy laughs. "It's gonna be the coldest I've ever been in my life."

Illy, born Alasdair David George Mur- Fri, Feb 27 (8 pm) ray, hadn't given play- With Dragon Fli Empire, ing in Canada much Doom Squad, Deffine Down Under wonder // Julian Marshall (We Are Unified) thought—it's only Pawnshop, $15 advance, Now, thanks to Illy and other main"I'd always wanted recently that hip $20 at the door hop has enjoyed real to come [to Cana- stream rappers like Hilltop Hoods and mainstream success da]," Illy says. "I'd say Bliss n Eso, he says hip hop is now likely in Australia. But the 28-year-old it's a dream come true, but that's the biggest genre in the country. He had a massive 2014, thanks to the corny. Because when I first started adds that what makes Aussie hip hop success of his album Cinematic, a I didn't even dream that I'd ever be special, besides that amazing accent and slang, is its humble realness. pop-hook-heavy certified-platinum able to do this kind of shit."

"It's just normal people talking about record produced by Grammy AwardThe first album Illy purchased was shit that is relevant," Illy explains. "It's winning countryman M-Phazes.

The momentum from Cinematic Tupac's Greatest Hits, and as a teen- more relatable on an everyday kind of landed Illy prime festival spots, play- ager he was into American gangsta vibe. There's not the same kind of moning to crowds of 40 000 people and rap like Biggie Smalls, Nas and Jay Z ey [as American rap] so you can't write a European tour with fellow Aussie before he got into more underground songs about that. I imagine it'd be rehip-hoppers Hilltop Hoods. It was the hip hop. Back then, the Australian rap ally easy to talk about the stuff money Hoods, likely the biggest rap group scene was small and not respected by buys all the time—but when you don't have that crutch you've got to work a Down Under and frequent collaborat- the mainstream.

"There was no radio play or anything," lot harder to make it good." ing partners with Illy, that broke the ice for Aussie hip hop in Canada with he notes. "It was even looked down [on] JOSH MARCELLIN JOSH@VUEWEEKLY.COM or mocked by the majority of people." the group's fall 2014 tour.

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Rah Rah

"It's not autobiographical, but it's not too far from the reality of growing up here, either," Burns adds, noting he has done everything mentioned in the song at one time or another. "It's pretty tongue and cheek, but I do really enjoy the winter, and I have a lot of great memories of the winter at the same time, and it's fairly awful in other ways. There are two sides to everything, I guess, and the song explores that in a lot of ways."

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inter is like a house guest who overstays their welcome, but those chilly days can also offer a wealth of nostalgia.

Regina-based indie folk-rockers Rah Rah harnessed this notion on "Good Winter," the first single from its forthcoming album Vessels, due out later this year (no release date just yet).

"A lot of this album, one of the main ideas that I was working with lyrically was thinking about memory a lot, and home and nostalgia and how time and nostalgia alters the past because we forget," explains guitarist and vocalist

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Marshall Burns. "What actually happened doesn't matter anymore—it's how it's remembered, right?"

Burns acknowledges that winter is an unfavourable season, particularly among those on the Canadian prairies, but there are also "fun little memories that are highly romanticized," like the ones on "Good Winter"—brunch the day after a night spent tobogganing while slightly intoxicated, relationships, skating, hockey and plenty of pints.

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Besides a solid hit of nostalgia, "Good Winter" acts as something of a transition single for Rah Rah, Burns notes.

He admits it's not the most radio-ready single on the album—those are yet to come—but it's a track that isn't a far sonic stretch from the band's previous album, The Poet's Dead.

"I think the biggest difference is that we were very sure of ourselves going into it and very sure of the situation we were getting into with the procedures we were working with," Burns says, adding this was the first time Rah Rah used the same producers as the album before: Gus Van Go and Werner F. "Every time we've recorded it's always been a little bit different, and then there's always sort of a learning curve that takes a while to get comfortable [with] and trust everyone and figure out what you're doing, whereas from day one we knew exactly what we were doing and we trusted the producers entirely."

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he guys in Stepmothers are only in their early 20s but they're already battle-tested veterans of Edmonton's music scene: guitarist and singer Troy Snaterse, drummer Matthew Punyi and bassist Nicolas MacDonald were playing hardcore shows at local youth centres when they were preteens.

"Everyone was straight edge," Snaterse says over black coffee at a Jasper Avenue café. "I thought I was straight edge, but I was only in junior high."

"I was involuntarily straight edge," Punyi laughs. "That's when it was cool that I wasn't getting laid."

Stepmothers takes the passion and intensity of its youth and smashes it into high-energy punk rock. Its debut self-titled full-length, released last summer, is balls-out confidence on wax: all hooky riffs, locked-down drums and

ing strong momentum and touring internationally.

Punyi says Stepmothers has been writing some new bangers that match its new stripped-down core. Indeed, the boys—none of whom have a stepmother, incidentally—just recorded a seveninch they hope to unleash in the summer. That's a much faster turnaround than for the group's self-titled album, which sat for a year with a Vancouver label that bungled the release.

"It was a bit of a messy thing," Snaterse says. "They said it was getting Sat, Feb 28 (8 pm) pressed, and a year went by and we With Grade, Hills Have Eyes hadn't gotten it yet. So we basically Pawnshop, $20 had to ask them what was going on—we were sitting on these masSnaterse's big Paul Westerberg rasp. tered tracks for over a year, like a full It's punk, it's rock and it's the sound of eight-song album. We ended up putting a band that loves to play and kicks ass it out on independently on CD." doing it.

But the band is rolling now. The boys That ass kicking transfers to its live are applying to more festivals in the shows. Stepmothers has rocked stages summer, working on a music video and at Sled Island and Bermuda Festival, seeing how far their energy can take a Capilano house party with home- them. Snaterse points at Edmonton brewed kegs and at Calgary's famous musicians, nurtured in the local scene, Tubby Dog, where the band was paid in taking flight in the music business.

"My friend Matt Kelly was in a hardbeer and hot dogs.

"Basically by the end of a show I feel core band called Born For Battle that like I've done hot yoga," Snaterse says. we used to play with all the time, and "I'm sweating from everywhere; I'm now he's playing in City and Colour and sweating out my kneecaps. I always feel that band with Dallas Green and Pink," like I'm going to pass out."

Snaterse says. "That's super fucking crazy. It's crazy to see how you can go from Until last year, the band was a four- playing in a basement in Edmonton to piece with Steve Lewis on guitar. But playing in a band with Pink."

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o, is it going to be the poncho, the furry vest or something completely different? Jesse Roper, a red-hot blues player from the tiny Vancouver Island town of Metchosin, is thinking he might go with Jimi Hendrix-style ruffles.

The 32-year-old musician has monster guitar chops and plays party-starting turbo blues, fused with reggae, rock or even folk. His high-energy live shows and downto-earth personality have been making waves in the Victoria area since he started performing as the Roper Show back in 2011—but it took him a long time to work up the nerve to perform live.

When he finally hit the stage, encouraged by friends, Roper says the response he got from crowds was addictive. To amp up his confidence he took to wearing goofy outfits on stage: the ponchos, the fuzzy vest or whatever ridiculous thing caught his eye.

"I'm kind of an introverted, shy guy," he says. "But I love playing so much. And once I put on the vest or the poncho, I'm no regular guy—it forces me to be the guy on stage, the rock star. Plus, then, I can't take myself too seriously."

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Roper recently released Red Bird, his second full-length. He says the record is the strongest of his career, a blend of his hot-rod guitar playing and the most personal lyrics he's penned yet.

A lot of the songs were inspired by him falling in love, an experience he says "changed [his] whole fucking life."

To pay for the recording, he spent a long, cold winter in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan doing seismic surveying work.

"It's a lot of 10-hour days scratching through the bush or walking across the flat prairie, freezing your balls off

and praying for a coulee so you can get out of the wind," Roper laughs.

The small-town man—Metchosin, he says, is a "wee little place with a restaurant, a corner store and that's about it"—is taking a serious run at the music business. He's hired a management company, steadily building his audience and is working with a solid core of tour-ready musicians.

"Man, I would just love it if I could tour for years at a time," he says. "I can't get enough of playing live."

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J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam

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Thu; 9pm KELLY'S PUB Jameoke Night with the Nervous Flirts (sing-along with a live band); every Thu, 9pm1am; no cover

northlands.com

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open Stage

Sat–It's the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm LEGENDS Sat 3pm Jam and Open Mic with Nick Samoil and guests

L.B.'S PUB South Bound Freight

PAWN SHOP Ben Disaster with

guests; 8pm (doors); 18+ only; $10 (adv) RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling pianos at 8pm RIC'S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues

every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm STARLITE ROOM J Phlip; 9pm

(doors); 18+ only; $15 TAVERN ON WHYTE Open stage with Michael Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am UNION HALL Arkells with guests;

8pm (doors); 18+ only UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA Winter

Roots Roundup Festival VI WUNDERBAR Tension Collectors,

Evan A James, Private Investigators; 9pm; $5; 18+ only

Classical MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH

BOURBON ROOM Dueling pianos

CHURCH All About That Bass Featuring New Edmonton Wind Sinfonia; 7:30pm; $15 (door)

MERCURY ROOM Jesse Roper with Kirby Sewell Band and with guests; 8pm; $12 (adv), $14 (door)

YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm

DJs

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local Bands every

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every

Sat

Friday DJs on all three levels

NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs; 7pm

THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old

Lawrence Acoustic Trio; 8-11pm; $10

school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri

O'BYRNE'S Live band every Sat,

CAFE BLACKBIRD Marshall

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK The

THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu

ON THE ROCKS Achilles Last Stand

disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh

ORLANDO'S 1 Bands perform every

every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled

Enduros CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music

every Fri: this week with ADJE; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON Vera CASINO YELLOWHEAD Sherry

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri;

9pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Rob Taylor;

every Fri

7pm

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday Nights:

DV8 Eye Of Horus With Scythia And Bleed; 8pm; $10; 18+ only

Indie rock and dance with DJ Brodeep

FESTIVAL PLACE Road to Django;

RED STAR Movin' on Up: indie,

7:30pm FORT LOUNGE Sugarfoot; 8-11pm;

rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

week; $10 PALACE CASINO–WEM The Red

Hotz; 9:30pm PAWN SHOP Grade; 8pm (doors);

18+ only RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling

piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am RENDEZVOUS PUB On The Frontline With RC Sindicate, Balderdash & Escape City; 9pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door); 18+, no minors RICHARD'S PUB The Mad Dog

floor; 9:30pm MERCURY ROOM Single Mothers

UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

CAMPUS Derina Harvey; 7pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs; 7pm

SAT FEB 28

Mcgarrigle; 7pm

O'MAILLE'S Dylan Farrell; 9pm

ARCADIA BAR Shaun Bosch with

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Thu and Fri DJ and dance

with The Dirty Nil and Cold Lungs and with Lesser Man; 8pm; $10 (adv)

ON THE ROCKS Achilles Last Stand PALACE CASINO–WEM The Red

MUTTART HALL Midday Music; 12-

Hotz; 9:30pm

ARDEN Les Yeux Noirs; 7:30pm;

1pm; admission by donation

PAWN SHOP Illy; 8pm (doors);

18+ only

WINSPEAR CENTRE ESO & Winspear Overture Tour; 12-1pm

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling

DJs

piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am RENDEZVOUS PUB Farmageddon Fundraiser With Mongol, Tyrant, Black Collar, Ravage Red; 9pm; $10; 18+ only

Blues and Roots Jam hosted by Jimmy Guiboche; 3-7pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN

Andrew Scott; 7pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Mark

Joshua Radin with special guests Andrew Belle and Cary Brothers

Throwback Thu: Rock&Roll, Funk, Soul, R&B and 80s with DJ Thomas Culture; jamz that will make your backbone slide; Wooftop: Dig It!

3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm O'MAILLE'S Dylan Farrell; 9pm

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Amplified Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door)

Free

Lisa Nicole Grace; 9pm; $10 (suggested donation at the door)

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu Main Fl:

DEWEY'S Stone Iris; 7pm; $12;

18+ only 7pm

Andrew Scott; 7pm

Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111

CROWN & ANCHOR PUB Bandana

Gold; 9pm

FESTIVAL PLACE Lunasa; 7:30-

FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by

(doors); No minors; $39.95

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Rob Taylor;

10:30pm; $20

8pm; all ages (15+)

Enduros mic; 7pm; $2

FESTIVAL PLACE Pear; 7:30-

NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs; 7pm

8-11pm; $15 CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK The

CENTURY CASINO Prism; 7pm

FESTIVAL PLACE The Acoustical Sounds of Big Sugar; 7:30pm

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open stage;

CAFE BLACKBIRD Mark Segger Trio;

To Canada Featuring University Of Alberta Department Of Music with Yue Deng and Patricia Tao; 8pm; $20 (adult), $15 (senior), $10 (student)

Open Jam Nights; no cover

floor; 9:30pm

BRIXX BAR Graham Bedard, Jonathan Vautour and James Lavoie; 7pm; $5

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open

EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Thu and Fri DJ and dance

Sat Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

CONVOCATION HALL From China

Rebuild, Repair, Msa And Citizen Rage; 8pm; $10; 18+ only

open jam with hosts: Rob Kaup, Leah Durelle

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Big Dave Mclean BOHEMIA DARQ Saturdays: Industrial - Goth - Dark Electro with DJs the Gothfather and Zeio; 9pm; $5 (door); (every Sat except the 1st Sat of the month)

7:30pm; $10

Mic: All adult performers are welcome (music, song, spoken word); every Thu, 1:30-3pm

BLUE CHAIR CAFE Dinner and Live music: Jamie Philp and Christine Hanson; 7:30-10pm: cover by donation

$34 ARTERY Musicians for MS Concert

STARLITE ROOM One Bad Son; 8pm; 18+ only; $19-$22 UNION HALL Machine Head with guests; 8pm (door); 18+ only UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA Winter Roots Roundup Festival VI

and Silent Auction – CD Release Featuring Madeline and Montague with The Gibson Block & Special Guests; 8pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door)

WUNDERBAR "Who Are You,

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Jason

YARDBIRD SUITE Ubiquitous

Greeley "B" STREET BAR Rockin Big Blues

and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat

Mr. Node?" film screening w/ Strangled & The Strap; 9pm; $5; 18+ only Orchestra Cd Release Event; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $22 (members), $26 (guests)

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Classical JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Video Games

Live - Bonus Round ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH Sing for your Supper; 6pm TIMMS CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Mosaic IV: Vocal Beat WEST END CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH Lux Aeterna: Eternal

Light; 7pm

FEB/26 FEB/27

J PHLIP W/

FEB/28 MAR/7

MAR/18

The Menace Sessions: alt rock/ Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic Hip-Hop, R&B and Reggae with DJ Sonny Grimez & instigate; Underdog: Alternating DJs

HEAVISIDE

THE BOWER For Those Who Know...:

Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat

ONE BAD SON

THE COMMON Get Down It's

Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane

UALBERTA PRIDE WEEK PRESENTS

THE 12TH ANNUAL

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat;

OUTREACH

ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound

and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong

every Sat Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm); 1st Sat each month

FLYNT FLOSSY & YUNG HUMMA p

SFEAR MANAGEMENT AND STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

ELECTRIC SIX THESE RAVEN SKIES

MAR/26

W/

MAR/27

GUESTS

JCL PRODUCTIONS AND MRG CONCERTS PRESENTS

9:30pm-1am hosted by Jim Dyck, Randy Forsberg and Mark Ammar; 4-8pm UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA Winter Roots Roundup Festival VI YARDBIRD SUITE Pilc Moutin

Hoenig; 7pm (door), 8pm (snow); $22 (members), $26 (guests)

Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip

BLUES ON WHYTE Andrew Jr Boy

Jones BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled

YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage

Tue; 9pm

Classical FESTIVAL PLACE The Swingle

Singers; 7:30pm Month of Music: Showcase Band; 7:30-9:30pm; $11.75 (student / senior), $13.75 (adult) ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH Brass for Kids; 3-5pm; TIMMS CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Mosaic IV: Vocal Beat WEST MEADOWS Strength and

Song; 7-8:30pm; Free WINSPEAR CENTRE Edmonton

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy

Blue Jay's Messy Nest: Mod, Brit Pop, New Wave & British Rock with DJ Blue Jay; Wooftop: Metal Mon: with Metal Phil (fr CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunch Box) BLUES ON WHYTE Andrew Jr Boy

open mic MERCURY ROOM Music Magic

Monday Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4 NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku

industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave

TUE MAR 3

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday

SUN MAR 1

DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots

O'BYRNE'S Open mic every Sun;

Jones

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

Blue Jay's Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay

hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Jam

Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510

R&B, Rock&Roll and Electro/Disco sounds of the last 70 years with DJ Thomas Culture

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

W/

HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin' the Hog

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown,

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays:

THE WHITE BUFFALO, SPENCER BURTON

with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com

KLINGANDE

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music

MON MAR 2

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing

UNIONELECTRONIC & FREE LOVE PRESENT

on the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm

DJs

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

TATTERED, RIVER VALLEY SEARCH PARTY, KAMI VAN HAIST, ALTERRA

DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

W/

DJs

Metropolitan Chorus and Orchestra The Peacemakers by Karl Jenkins; $20

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai

BLACK STREAM RECORDS AND RCR MANAGEMENT

BLUES ON WHYTE Big Dave Mclean

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice

electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

THE MANDEVILLES, THE FRONTS, MARYSTOWN

RED STAR Swing, Funk, Soul,

$20, Free (kids)

PAWN SHOP Transmission

WXDREAMS PRESENTS

Cadaver; every Tue

Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm

JOHN L HAAR THEATRE March

9pm

DRAG SHOW TURQUOISE JEEP W/

MAR/21

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

UNION EVENTS & STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

p

MAR/20

DJs

FACE FIRST CD RELEASE SHOW

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic

Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm

WINSPEAR CENTRE Beethoven's Seventh Symphony; 8pm

NIGHT VISION PRESENTS

BLUE CHAIR CAFE Brunch with Charlie Austin; 9am-3pm; Donations

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open

stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open

Jam: Trevor Mullen MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with

Kris Harvey and guests MERCURY ROOM Rah Rah with We

Were Friends with Guests; 8pm; $16 (adv), $22 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm • Herbs O'BYRNE'S Celtic jam every

Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Open

mic every Tue RED PIANO Every Tue: the Nervous

Flirts Jameoke Experience (sing-along with a live band); 7:30pm-12am; no cover; relaxed dress code

WED MAR 4 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage

Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 ARDEN THEATRE Monkey Sing,

Monkey Do Featuring Mary Lambert; 11am; $10 (adult), $5 (kids 2+), Free (kids 2 and under) BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds BLUES ON WHYTE Andrew Jr Boy

Jones BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled

YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open

mic with host Duff Robison NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW Open mic Wed: Hosted by Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12 jordanfstrand@gmail.com / 780655-8520 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (nonmember) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live:

hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover

Showcase and Open Jam (blues) hosted by Mark Ammar; 7:30pm

ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE Live

Classical

RICHARD'S PUB Tue Live Music

music with the Icehouse Band and weekly guests; Every Tue, 9pm SANDS HOTEL Country music

dancing every Tue, featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro every Tue, 8-11pm YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session:

Mike Morrisseau Quartet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Brit Pop, Synthpop, Alternative 90's, Glam Rock with DJ Chris Bruce; Wooftop: Substance: alt retro and not-so-retro electronic and dance with Eddie LunchPail BRIXX Metal night every Tue DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly,

Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH

Music Wednesdays At Noon: this week with Amelia Kaminski and Gail Olmstead (fiddle and piano); 12:10-12:50pm; Free

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait

Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed Experience:

Classics on Vinyl with Dane RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

VENUEGUIDE

FEB/28

NEW CITY PRESENTS

GRAHAM BEDARD, JONATHAN VAUTOUR AND JAMES LAVOIE

MAR/5

VOISKI REFUGE PRESENTS

W/

MAR/6

FRASER, PURE SIGNAL, EXTRA

UNDERGROUD BASS

VOL 1 FT. TC

THE STARLITE ROOM IS A PRIVATE VENUE FOR OUR MEMBERS AND THEIR GUESTS. IF YOU REQUIRE A MEMBERSHIP YOU CAN PURCHASE ONE AT THE VENUE PRIOR TO / OR AFTER THE DOOR TIMES FOR EACH SHOW.

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ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002 http://thebuckingham.ca BUDDY'S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99,

23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 COMMON 9910-109 St DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DEWEY'S University of Alberta, North Power Plant DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER'S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378

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FILTHY MCNASTY'S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FORT LOUNGE 13403 Fort Road; 780.473.0823 HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.'S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255

O'BYRNE'S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW 8404-109 St ORLANDO'S 1 15163-121 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC'S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave, 780.424.3836 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St

SHERWOOD PARK ALLIANCE CHURCH 1011 Clover Bar Rd, Sherwood Park SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WEST MEADOWS 9333-199 St NW WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

EVENTS WEEKLY

madeleine-sanam.orgs/en • Program for HIVAID'S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-

EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM

106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

COMEDY

0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Dennis Ross; Feb 26-28 • Tim Koslo; Mar 5-7 • Hannibal Thompson; Mar 12-14

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • Paul Mecurio; Feb 25-Mar 1 • Dom Irrera Special Presentation; Mar 5-8

CONNIE'S COMEDY • Draft Bar & Grill, 1291250 St • With Sterling Scott as headliner, Dan Taylor and Mark McCue • Feb 25, 7:30pm DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm DJ to follow EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm

KOMEDY KRUSH • Krush Ultralounge, 16648109 Ave NW • Open mic with a headliner to close • Mar 3, 17, 31; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show)

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm

POOR VOTE TURNOUT • Rossdale Hall,

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strath-

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP • Schizophrenia

THE ALBERTA DISADVANTAGE: GENDER, TAXATION, AND INCOME INEQUALITY •

Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • schizophrenia. ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of AlbertaEdmonton branch provides a facilitated family support group for caregivers of a loved one living with schizophrenia. Free drop-in the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer's Society of Alberta)

Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15

ASSOCIATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS MARCH MEETING • Chateau Louis Conference Centre, 11727 Kingsway Ave • meetings-edmonton@aaa.ca • eventbrite.ca/e/ aaa-march-2015-dinner-mtg-tedx-talk-tim-reidthird-down-leadership-tickets-12943320821 • A TEDx Talk video by Tim Reid on Third Down Leadership • Mar 2, 5:30-7:30pm • $35 (register

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587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Lowcost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519

TIBETAN BUDDHIST MAHAMUDRA • Karma Tashi Ling Society, 10502-70 Ave • Tranquility and insight meditation based on Very Ven. Thrangu Rinpoche's teachings. Suitable for meditation practitioners with Buddhist leanings • Every Thu, 7-8:30pm • Donations; jamesk2004@hotmail. com

TOASTMASTERS • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus

Practice group meets every Thu

St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:051pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:051pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@ hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until Dec 17, 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo. com; norwoodtoastmasters.org • Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl, Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; Sep-May; upward.toastmastersclubs. org; reader1@shaw.ca • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 •

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL ASSOCIATION • waskahegantrail.ca • Kinsman Fieldhouse to

EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Stanley Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Monthly roundtable discussion group. Topics change each month, please check the website for details, edmontonatheists.ca • 1st Tue, 7pm; each month

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown •

Edmonton Clinic Health Academy Room 1-190 (87 Ave & 114 St, U of A campus) • A pre-International Women's Day event to discuss how Alberta can get off the boom-and-bust fiscal roller-coaster and ensure greater levels of gender equality and fairness in Alberta. Featuring Kathleen Lahey • Mar 4, 7-9pm

ALBERTA & THE GREAT WAR • Provincial Archives of Alberta, 8555 Roper Road • PAA@ gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/ paa/eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • An exhibit that draws upon archival holdings to show the many ways that the First World War changed the province forever • until Aug 29, 9am-4:30pm

CARL HONORE - 'IN PRAISE OF SLOW' • Shaw Conference Centre, Hall D • 780.475.1360 • pastpres@getca.com • carlhonore.com • Feb 26, 7-8:15pm • Free

COLIN MOCHRIE AND DEBRA MCGRATH •

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot, 9351-

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave •

AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old

cona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS

Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm 780.451.3416 ext 232 • kdedeugd@hfh.org • hfh. org/volunteer/women-build • Mar 10-14

10135-96 Ave • poorvoteturnout.ca • Public meetings: promoting voting by the poor • Every Wed, 7-8pm •

Blvd, Enoch • rivercreeresort.com • Wayne Brady; 7pm (door), 9pm (show); $54.50; 18+ only Groove every Wed; 9pm

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood

WOMEN BUILD WEEK • Various build sites •

118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters. com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

RIVER CREE–THE VENUE • 300 East Lapotac

Alberta Legislature; Meet at Kinsman Fieldhouse parking lot; Mar 1, 9:45am; Hike Leader: Bev, 780.469.7948 • Patricia Ravine to Fort Edmonton; Meet at McDonalds 87 Ave/149 St (14920-87 Ave); Mar 8, 9:45am; Hike leader: Joanne, 780.487.0645

Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square Northwest • Canada's funniest couple • Mar 2, 7:30pm • $40

THE DYNAMICS OF GIANT PLANETS • University of Alberta Observatory, CCIS 5th Floor, SW corner • stars@ualberta.ca • ualberta. ca/~stars • Cassini and Hooke described bands and spots on Jupiter 350 years ago. More recently, cloud tracking observations from Earth and space missions have revealed bands and spots to be strong East-West zonal flows and vortices. This talk will relate interior structure and the dynamics of rotating convection atmospheric features on Jupiter and Saturn • Feb 26, 7-7:30pm • Free ELITE TOURS ABROAD • McKernan Community League, 11341-78 Ave • EliteToursAbroad. com • For those who have considered retiring, relocating, or investing in another country • Mar 5, 6-7pm • Free, RSVP to chloe@elitetoursabroad. com

GLUTEN FREE LIVING 101 • Hope Lutheran Church, 5104-106 Ave • Learn the basics of a gluten free lifestyle, such as the different challenges of a gluten free diet, how to check labels, how to live with CD, and how to use your kitchen wisely • Mar 11, 7-9pm • Free

GREAT EXPEDITIONS TRAVEL SLIDE • St. Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • Queen Charlotte Islands 2014 By John & Eleonore Woollard (Mar 2) • First Mon of the month, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $3 INDIANA JONES, THE TEMPLE OF DOOM & 'ESSENCE OF NURHACI'--THE REAL STORY • Telus World of Science, Margaret Ziedler Theatre • Presented by the Strathcona Archaeological Society. Lecture by Dr. Jack Ives (University of Alberta) • Mar 6, 7pm • Free with SAS membership or TWoS admission or membership.

INSIDE ISRAEL'S RACE WARS, FEATURING DAVID SHEEN • Edmonton Clinic Health Academy (ECHA) Room 1-498 (87 Ave & 114 St, U of A campus) • psnedmonton.ca • Journalist David Sheen will give a lecture and slideshow about Israeli incitement to racist violence against African asylum-seekers and Palestinians, the focus of his on-the-ground reporting for the past five years • Mar 2, 7-9pm

LET'S TALK PERMACULTURE WITH KENTON ZERBIN • Edmonton Horticultural Society Office, 10746-178 St • Using the principles of ecosystems and ecology to help garden in a more sustainable way • Feb 28, 10am-12pm • $15 (online)

POLAND IN THE ROCKIES, SPEAKER SERIES • Campus Saint-Jean Theatre, 8406-91 St • patrycja@polandintherockies.com • With a movie and speaker • Feb 27, 7-9:30pm • Free (refreshments provided)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP SERIES • Creative Practices Institute, 10149-122 St • creativepracticesinstitute.com • 780.909.6045 • brittney.cpiyeg@gmail.com • A series that encourages artists to manage a professional art career • Every 2nd Mon until Apr 6, 6-8pm • $10

RASC REGULAR MEETING: THE SCIENCE OF SHAKESPEARE • Telus World of Science, 11211-142 St NW • edmontonrasc.com • Explore Shakespeare's interest in the scientific discoveries of his time, with a particular focus on the changing conceptions of the cosmos, from Aristotle to Copernicus and Galileo • Mar 9, 7-9:30pm • Free

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 1043383 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm

UNIQUE LIVES & EXPERIENCES • Winspear Centre • Canada's foremost women's lecture series: Joy Behar: Jump for Joy–Life after the View; Mon, Mar 2, 7:30pm

VIEWS OF THE NIGHT SKY • University of Alberta Observatory, University of Alberta • Chat with astronomers who are currently undertaking research in astronomy, and look through telescopes to explore the universe. Free public talks during the first half of our observing session (should the sky not cooperate) • Weekly until Feb 26 • Free

and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women's Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@pridecentreofedmonton. org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.org, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership.

Confidentiality assured

10145-81 Ave • Learn how to assess your fertility and boost your chances of getting pregnant using natural strategies such as diet and supplements • Feb 26, 7-8:30pm • $10 (register at contactseeds@shaw.ca)

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

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BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House,

BEAD MARKET • Ramada Inn Edmonton

WOMEN'S HEALTH TALKS: PREPARING FOR PREGNANCY • Dr. Trethart's clinic,

9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust'n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men's Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@ teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net

LIVING POSITIVE • #33, 9912-106 St • 780.424.2214 • livingpositivethroughpositiveliving. com • In office peer counseling, public speakers available for presentations, advocacy and resource materials available • Support group for gay men living with HIV: 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/ competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families

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South, 5359 Calgary Trail • 780.486.7543 • TreasureStoneBeads.com • Have fun with beads, gemstones, charms, pearls and more beading supplies • Feb 28, 11am-5pm • Free

DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY MARCH anD Forum • Corbett Hall Field, 112 St and 82 Ave (forum to follow the march at Luther Centre 10014 81 Avenue) • facebook.com/IWDEdmonton • 780.952.1951 • Raising awareness about the most pressing concerns facing women today and to celebrate the contribution of women at the forefront of struggles for the rights of all • Mar 8, 1-4pm • Free

MAC N'CHEESE AFFAIR • University of Alberta Faculty Club • eventbrite.ca/e/the-campus-foodbank-present-the-mac-n-cheese-affair-2015-tickets-10859979491 • A banquet and silent auction.

Dress to impress and join in celebrating 24 years of fighting hunger on the U of A campus • Feb 27, 5pm (doors), 6pm (show) PEROGY SUPPER & FAMILY NIGHT • Ukrainian Centre, 11018-97 St • 780.434.1690 • judy.lederer@hotmail.com • A family night perogy supper and floor show featuring children's & adult Ukrainian dancers, cake walk, and more • Mar 7, 5:30-11pm • $10 (adults), $5 (kids) RHYTHMS OF THE EARTH: A CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH • Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse, 9315-118 Ave • artsontheave.org • Featuring an eclectic mix of events including poetry slams, dance workshops, food tasting and more • Feb 1-28, 12-11:30pm • Most events are free, some require pre-registration or purchase of a ticket

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 1022597 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm 2015 SKIRTSAFIRE HERARTS FESTIVAL • In and around the 118 Ave area • skirtsafire. wordpress.com • A platform for women's stories presented in theatre, music, dance, visual art, comedy and spoken word • Mar 5-8, times will vary • Prices will vary

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To celebrate 30 years of promoting visual art in Strathcona County, the The Art Society of Strathcona County Is Proud to Present A Special Open Art Show April 15 to 19, 2015 at the A. J. Ottewell Community Centre (Red Barn), 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Open Art Competition for All Alberta Residents • Cash Prizes, Gala Reception • Categories for Visual Art in Various Levels of Skill, including 3D, Photography and Digital • Entries will Close March 29, 2015 • Check our website for the Show Call: www.artstrathcona.com The members of the Society are looking forward to you joining us in celebrating our 30th Anniversary.

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Crisis Line Volunteers Needed: The Sexual Assault Centre is recruiting volunteers for our 24 hours crisis line on an ongoing basis. We offer over 50 hours of crisis intervention training at no charge. If you are empathetic, caring, nonjudgmental, want to gain experience within the helping field, and/or want to make change in your community this is an excellent opportunity for you! Please call Shannah at 780-423-4102 ext. 226 or email at shannahb@sace.ab.ca for more information.

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Our expert staff provides training with a focus on safety in a fun and welcoming environment. Take home an inspiring sense of accomplishment. Tools, equipment and lunch are provided. Visit https://www.hfh.org/volunteer/ women-build/ or contact Kim at kdedeugd@hfh.org or by phone 780-451-3416 ext 232

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1st Assistant Director is required to assist Main Director on film project. The assistant must have experience working with Arriflex Film camera (and not a video camera).Travel is a must, as this project is filming in Jasper National Park (townsite). Some segments will be filmed in town. The Assistant may have to work on a tight schedule in the town of Jasper, as it gets busier in the summer months. The Assistant Director must be capable of directing actors according the script. Non-union film project.

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ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: BUDAPEST The Open Call will begin on June 25, 2014, we have every months jury selection until April 15, 2015. Apply early!

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Loft Art Gallery and Gift Shop Workshops for January to April 2015 See www.artstrathcona.com for updates on workshops, comprehensive information, supply list and to register.

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Loft Art Gallery and Gift Shop – Opens January 31 with new artwork by the artists of the Art Society of Strathcona County.

Ottewell Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd. Open Saturdays and Sundays 12 to 4 pm for your viewing and purchasing pleasure. Local artwork for your home, business or gift giving.

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Bassist, 53, needs lead instrumentalist for blues jamming in Leduc, backing tracks available. sirveggi@telus.net, 986-2940 Looking for players for blues rock Contact Derek at 780-577-0991

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): Lately your life reminds me of the action film Speed, starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves. In that story, a criminal has rigged a passenger bus to explode if its speed drops below 50 miles per hour. In your story, you seem to be acting as if you, too, will self-destruct if you stop moving at a frantic pace.

I'm here to tell you that nothing bad will happen if you slow down. Just the opposite, in fact.

As you clear your schedule of its excessive things-to-do, as you leisurely explore the wonders of doing nothing in particular, I bet you will experience a soothing flood of healing pleasure.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): One of the most dazzling moves a ballet dancer can do is the fouetté en tournant. The term is French for "whipped turning." As she executes a 360-degree turn, the dancer spins around on the tip of one foot. Meanwhile, her other foot thrusts outward and then bends in, bringing her toes to touch the knee of her supporting leg. Can you imagine a dancer doing this 32 consecutive times?

That's what the best do. It takes extensive practice and requires a high degree of concentration and discipline. Paradoxically, it expresses breathtaking freedom and exuberance. You may not be a prima ballerina, Taurus, but in your own field there must be an equivalent to the fouetté en tournant. Now is an excellent time for you to take a vow and make plans to master that skill.

What will you need to do?

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): If you're a martial artist and you want to inject extra energy into an aggressive move, you might utter a percussive shout that sounds like "eee-yah!" or "hyaah!" or "aiyah!" The Japanese term for this sound is kiai. The sonic boost is most effective if it originates deep in your diaphragm rather than from your throat.

Even if you're not a martial artist, Gemini, I suggest that in the coming weeks you have fun trying out this boisterous style of yelling. It may help you summon the extra power and confidence you'll need to successfully wrestle with all the interesting challenges ahead of you.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): The prolific and popular French novelist Aurore Dupin was better known by her pseudonym George Sand. Few 19th-century women matched her rowdy behaviour.

She wore men's clothes, smoked cigars, was a staunch feminist and frequented social venues where only men were normally allowed. Yet she was also a doting mother to her two children, and she loved to garden, make jam and do needlework. Among her numerous lovers were the writers Alfred de Musset, Jules Sandeau and Prosper Mérimée, as well as composer Frederic

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Chopin and actress Marie Dorval. Her preferred work schedule was midnight to 6 am, and she often slept until 3 pm. "What a brave man she was," said Russian author Ivan Turgenev, "and what a good woman." Her astrological sign? The same as you and me. She's feisty proof that not all of us Crabs are conventional fuddy-duddies. In the coming weeks, she's our inspirational role model.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): It seems you've slipped into a time warp.

Is that bad? I don't think so. Your adventures there may twist and tweak a warped part of your psyche in such a way that it gets healed. At the very least, I bet your visit to the time warp will reverse the effects of an old folly and correct a problem caused by your past sins. (By the way, when I use the word "sin," I mean "being lax about following your dreams.") There's only one potential problem that could come out of all this: some people in your life could misinterpret what's happening. To prevent that, communicate crisply every step of the way.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): In English and French versions of the word game Scrabble, the letter z is worth 10 points. In Italian, it's eight points. But in the Polish variant of Scrabble, you score just one point by using z. That letter is rarely used in the other three languages, but is common in Polish. Keep this general principle in mind as you assess the value of the things you have to offer. You will be able to make more headway and have greater impact in situations where your particular beauty and power and skills are in short supply.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): "Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have to make them all your yourself." So said Alfred Sheinwold in his book about the card game known as bridge. I think this is excellent advice for the game of life, as well. And it should be extra pertinent for you in the coming weeks, because people in your vicinity will be making gaffes and wrong turns that are useful for you to study. In the future, you'll be wise to avoid perpetrating similar messes yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): "Love her but leave her wild," advised a graffiti artist who published his thoughts on a wall next to the mirror in a public restroom I visited. Another guerrilla philosopher had added a comment below: "That's a nice sentiment, but how can anyone retain wildness in a society that puts so many demands on us in exchange for money to live?"

Since I happened to have a felttip pen with me, I scrawled a response to the question posed in the second comment: "Be in na-

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ture every day. Move your body a lot. Remember and work with your dreams. Be playful. Have good sex. Infuse any little thing you do with a creative twist.

Hang out with animals. Eat with your fingers. Sing regularly." And that's also my message for you, Scorpio, during this phase when it's so crucial for you to nurture your wildness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): "Don't worry, even if things get heavy, we'll all float on." So sings Modest Mouse's vocalist Isaac Brock on the band's song "Float On." I recommend you try that approach yourself, Sagittarius. Things will no doubt get heavy in the coming days. But if you float on, the heaviness will be a good, rich, soulful heaviness. It'll be a purifying heaviness that purges any glib or shallow influences that are in your vicinity. It'll be a healing heaviness that gives you just the kind of graceful gravitas you will need.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): "What I look for in a friend is someone who's different from me," says science-fiction novelist Samuel Delany. "The more different the person is, the more I'll learn from him. The more he'll come up with surprising takes on ideas and things and situations." What about you, Capricorn? What are the qualities in a friend that help you thrive?

Now is a perfect time to take an inventory. I sense that although there are potential new allies wandering in your vicinity, they will actually become part of your life only if you adjust and update your attitudes about the influences you value most.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): At the turn of the 19th century, Russian labourers constructed thousands of miles of railroad tracks from the western part of the country eastward to Siberia.

The hardest part of the job was blasting tunnels through the mountains that were in the way.

I reckon you're at a comparable point in your work, Aquarius.

It's time to smash gaping holes through obstacles. Don't scrimp or apologize. Clear the way for the future.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): The British rock band the Animals released its gritty, growly song "The House of the Rising Sun" in 1964. It reached the top of the pop-music charts in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, and was a hit with critics. Rolling Stone magazine ultimately ranked it as the 122nd greatest song of all time. And yet it took the Animals just 15 minutes to record. They did it in one take.

That's the kind of beginner's luck and spontaneous flow I foresee you having in the coming weeks, Pisces. What's the best way for you to channel all that soulful mojo? V AT THE BACK 27

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Hurts so good—or not

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How does that work?

beliefs about sex and sexuality, previous sexual experiences and sense of confidence/self-esteem can be vital aspects of therapeutic treatment—as is developing awareness of the body's reaction to emotional experiences, which allows for conscious relaxation of the muscles.

Certain temperament traits may also contribute to emotional somatization. Anyone that has taken an introductory psych class is probably familiar with the term "anally retentive." Traditionally, this term reflects an anxious dis: First, I want to acknowledge position and invites the unwanted how difficult this must be for visual of a clenched asshole. Well, you. I work with a lot of women I like to think that women with with sexual-pain disorders, and I more anxious and internalizing can appreciate the distress it can natures have cause. There are many emotional Our minds and bodies are deeply connected. the capability of being layers to the On a neurological level, receptors in the "vaginally recondition, including relationship brain are responsible for processing physical tentive." With that said, destruggles, mansensation, meaning that pain is actually a veloping new aging chronic strategies pain, feelings of mental perception. for managing helplessness or failure, fear for the future of your useful in helping to alleviate the one's own vigilance may help resex life and concerns about the abil- distress and manage the percep- duce the unconscious clenching that can lead to pain. ity to have kids. All in all, it can be tion of the discomfort.

While there are often psychologiEven on a surface level, the body emotionally very traumatic.

Vulvodynia is a condition that is very responsive to our state of cal underpinnings to sexual pain, causes pain in the vulva (area sur- mind. For instance, when I'm con- therapy works best when comrounding the vaginal opening) dur- centrating, I have an unconscious bined with medical treatment and ing sex, and it is estimated that tendency to clench my jaw; just physiotherapy. V it affects 20 percent of women like women anticipating discomfort in their lifetime. Most often the upon penetration may find them- Tami-lee Duncan is a Registered pain is caused by a tightening of selves unconsciously clenching Psychologist in Edmonton, spethe pelvic-floor muscles or by in- their pelvic-floor muscles. It is also cializing in sexual health. Please jury to the pudendal nerve, caus- possible for other psychological note that the information and ing overactive nerve endings that stressors to unconsciously show advice given above is not a subproduce a painful burning sensa- up in the vagina. In some cases, stitute for therapeutic treatment tion. Common treatments include working through emotional or re- with a licensed professional. For physiotherapy, antidepressants, lational issues may be sufficient to resources related to the informaanti-seizure medication and numb- ameliorate the problem. Explora- tion provided or to submit a quesing creams and, less commonly, tion of the relationship dynamic, tion, please contact tami-lee@ patients can undergo Botox treat- feelings about intimacy, values and vueweekly.com.

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“O No!”-- prepare for an abrupt ending.

DATING DISTANCE

I have been reading your column for years, Dan, and now I'm writing you for the first time to ask for a favour. I met this dude online in December and I felt like we had a good connection. He "dumped" me, though, because he was busy and was going through career shit and lived halfway across the country from me. I think a dude telling you he's too busy for you is bullshit— because boobs—so I encouraged him to tell me the truth. He insisted he wasn't shining me on: busyness and career shit and distance were the truth, he said. Now it turns out that I will shortly be moving within easy dating distance of this dude.

I still think about this guy a lot. I feel like I could connect with him emotionally and sexually in a really blissful way. He reads your column.

Would you be a pal and tell this dude to date me already?

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67 Half of football or basketball 68 Cremains holder 69 Night before 70 Loud fights in public places 71 Stephen of “V for Vendetta” 72 Guitarist ___ Paul

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Before I turn to GOTM's problem— such as it is—a quick note about why I chose her letter: I'm sick as a dog and so hopped up on Theraflu and DayQuil and Chinese tinctures that I probably shouldn't be operating advice machinery at all today. But deadlines are deadlines. So I'm going to respond to some easy questions this week—low and over the plate—and leave the situational ethics, rulings on whether a particular infidelity is permissible, and advice for stressed-out parents of budding young sadists for another column.

To the dude GOTM met online in December: You should date her.

To GOTM: OK, I told the dude to date you. You're welcome. But moving within dating distance solves only one of the three issues he cited when he "dumped" you.

The distance problem has been resolved, but the career shit and busy shit endure—if those are the real reasons he dumped you. The courteous dumper often points to career, schooling, distance, etc, to spare a dumpee's feelings. When a blindsided dumpee presses the courteous dumper for the real reason(s)—as you did, GOTM— the dumper almost always doubles down and insists that career, schooling, distance, etc, are the real reason(s). Only in rare cases does the dumper say, "OK, that wasn't the truth. I totally lied. The real reasons I'm dumping you are [something devastating, something you can't unhear, something the dumpee was right to spare you from in the first place]."

So, GOTM, you say you urged him to tell you the truth and he insisted that distance, career, busyness were the real reasons he couldn't

date you. But even if you somehow solved all three problems—moved closer, got him a better job, hired him a personal assistant—odds are good that he still wouldn't be interested in dating you. So I'm telling him to date you, GOTM, per your request, but I'm going to close by telling you to brace yourself for the "no" that's probably coming your way.

TICKLE, TICKLE

Shame on you for recommending adultery as a solution to a husband who can't satisfy his wife! Satisfying a woman is easy! I learned it from a book! You just tickle the clitoris continuously with as light a touch as possible until she comes, as many times as you like. Sorry, I forget the name of the book.

Bad Advice Destroys I'm not sure which column you're objecting to—I've recommended adultery to so many husbands

HOMOSOCIAL WHAT?

I'm a high school sophomore. I'm a mostly closeted gay, having come out only to some of my friends, but my best friend was the first one I told. I've had a crush on him since sixth grade. Sometimes he acts very gay with me: he's stroked my hair and leaned on my shoulder, some light rubbing of feet, etc, usually with me reciprocating. Most of this was before he knew I was gay. But just a month ago, at a sleepover, we had to share a bed, and basically the entire night I was the closest I have ever been to a non–family member. Yet he continues to protest that he is straight.

My question: do you think he is gay or at least questioning?

Crushing On Bestie Your best friend could be gay, COB, or he could be one of those New Model Straight Boys, aka a straight boy so secure in his heterosexuality that he's comfortable with what the sex researchers call "homosocial intimacy," eg, leaning on a male friend's shoulder, stroking a male friend's hair, rubbing a male friend's feet (a form of homosocial contact that this homo isn't comfortable with), etc.

If your friend is gay, COB, he may not have come out yet for all sorts of reasons (he's not ready, his parents might freak, he's not sure if he's gay or bi or what). Or your friend may know he's gay but hasn't come out to you because he knows how you feel about him (crush since sixth grade) and he doesn't feel the same way about you (he likes you only as a friend).

So he tells you he's straight to spare your feelings, COB, because then the rejection isn't so personal.

But only your friend knows what he is for sure, and right now he says he's straight. Respect his sexual identity, COB, just as he respects yours—sleepovers and homosocial intimacy notwithstanding.

I’ve recommended adultery to so many husbands and wives over the years that I’ve lost track and wives over the years that I've lost track—but I'm pretty sure the book you're referring to is God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy by Mike Huckabee.

ENDERS GAME

I'm a 33-year-old man in a monogamous relationship with a 32-yearold woman for eight months. In the beginning, she was really passionate and required sex all the time.

But I noticed that she was the first woman I was ever with who didn't like to give pleasure with normal sex, by which I mean vaginal intercourse. Instead, she was only interested in sex that directly pleasured her. She didn't think about my pleasure while I satisfied her with cunnilingus or helped her to masturbate herself. After six months, I was losing interest, so I asked her why it was like this. After that talk, I had to leave for work, and after a month, we met again. Her sexual desire for me had disappeared, while my desire for her had only grown. My two questions: 1. Does she have another man? 2. Is our relationship over? Please let me know what you think.

Too High Too Low 1. I couldn't tell you.

2. Looks that way. And if the genders were reversed—if you were a woman dating a man who didn't care about your pleasure and only wanted blowjobs and help jacking off—no one would hesitate to tell you that your lover was selfish and that this relationship needed to end.

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